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title: Wicked, which animals had burrows as big as railway tunnels? — Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Pur… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, which animals had burrows as big as railway tunnels? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» of the books course of Mova's prima
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# Test 3 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

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Wicked, which animals had burrows as big as railway tunnels?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wicked animals · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** burrows

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/636-pg23661-part4/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t3:1
# text = Wicked, which animals had burrows as big as railway tunnels?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | which Wicked animals | burrows |  |  |  | big *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burrow=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The moles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t3:o1:1
# text = The moles
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moles	mole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The mice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t3:o2:1
# text = The mice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The rabbits, who lived under the hills near the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t3:o3:1
# text = The rabbits, who lived under the hills near the sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the rabbits |  |  | the hills |  | near the sea | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under hill=Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The rabbits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:636-pg23661-part4:t3:o4:1
# text = The rabbits
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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