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title: ok so the grouse just dumps a whole duvet of feathers on them, prope… — The Magic City, the North Pole dragon… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so the grouse just dumps a whole duvet of feathers on them, proper mad innit Test 1 · ★ of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 1 · ★ · The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ok so the grouse just dumps a whole duvet of feathers on them, proper mad innit

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grouse · **What happens:** dump · **To what, where:** whole duvet

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 646 «The Magic City, the North Pole dragon tale, part 14: white feathers, a moth army, and a melting dragon» 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/646-pg23661-part14/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t1:1
# text = ok so the grouse just dumps a whole duvet of feathers on them, proper mad innit
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grouse	grouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dumps	dump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	duvet	duvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dump** | present | the grouse | a whole duvet of feathers on feathers and proper mad innit |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent duvet=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the sealskin dwarfs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t1:o1:1
# text = the sealskin dwarfs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sealskin	sealskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the children, George and Jane, who had been buried under the feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t1:o2:1
# text = the children, George and Jane, who had been buried under the feathers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past · perfect · passive |  | George and Jane |  | the feathers |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under feather=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the two children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t1:o3:1
# text = the two children
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
George and Jane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:646-pg23661-part14:t1:o4:1
# text = George and Jane
1	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Jane	Jane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
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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