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title: ok but which Simon actually shot the swan, fr? — Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena i… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok but which Simon actually shot the swan, fr? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the S…

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ok but which Simon actually shot the swan, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Simon · **What happens:** shoot · **To what, where:** swan

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» 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/669-pg2435-part9/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t2:1
# text = ok but which Simon actually shot the swan, fr?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
4	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past | Simon | the swan and fr |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination swan=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}

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the third

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t2:o1:1
# text = the third
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	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 fourth Simon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t2:o2:1
# text = the fourth Simon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	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}

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the fifth Simon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t2:o3:1
# text = the fifth Simon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the youngest brother named Simon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:669-pg2435-part9:t2:o4:1
# text = the youngest brother named Simon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | the youngest brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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