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title: What did Tom chuck up at the window, like? — Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The P… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Tom chuck up at the window, like? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 7 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

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What did Tom chuck up at the window, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** chuck up · **To what, where:** window

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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/638-pg23661-part6/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t7:1
# text = What did Tom chuck up at the window, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chuck	chuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck up** | past · do-support | Tom |  |  | the window |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent what=Theme at window=Destination |

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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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a pear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t7:o1:1
# text = a pear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a teddy bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t7:o2:1
# text = a teddy bear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	teddy	teddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
white roses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t7:o3:1
# text = white roses
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t7:o4:1
# text = a ball
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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