--- title: Wait, what do you chuck at the raven? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: mu… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what do you chuck at the raven? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/683-pg2435-part23/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: mu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/683-pg2435-part23/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth… Wait, what do you chuck at the raven? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, chuck · **To what, where:** raven This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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/683-pg2435-part23/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t4:1 # text = Wait, what do you chuck at the raven? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 chuck chuck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **chuck** | present · do-support | you | | | the raven | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent what=Theme at raven=Destination | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Bits of oxen meat cut from the cart ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t4:o1:1 # text = Bits of oxen meat cut from the cart 1 Bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 oxen oxen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | participle | | oxen meat *not said here* | | the cart | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cart=Location | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Bits of oxen meat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t4:o2:1 # text = Bits of oxen meat 1 Bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Bits of oxen meat and the golden bridle too ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t4:o3:1 # text = Bits of oxen meat and the golden bridle too 1 Bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 compound _ _ 4 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bridle bridle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Bits of cheese ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:683-pg2435-part23:t4:o4:1 # text = Bits of cheese 1 Bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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