--- title: Which animal's braying caused Peppina to turn her head? — Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Liz… · tree and pragmatics description: Which animal's braying caused Peppina to turn her head? Exam question 4 of lesson 720 «Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a star, but greedy Peppina gets a donkey's tail» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/720-pg2435-part60/e4/) [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/) / [Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Liz…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/720-pg2435-part60/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a… Which animal's braying caused Peppina to turn her head? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal, Peppina · **What happens:** bray, cause, turn · **To what, where:** Peppina, head This is exam question 4 of lesson 720 «Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a star, but greedy Peppina gets a donkey's tail» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/720-pg2435-part60/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e4:1 # text = Which animal's braying caused Peppina to turn her head? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 braying bray VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Peppina Peppina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bray** | gerund | which animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cause** | past | which animal | Peppina | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive | Peppina *not said here* | animal's head | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | 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} The donkey braying near the well ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e4:o1:1 # text = The donkey braying near the well 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 braying bray VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 near near ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bray** | gerund | the donkey *not said here* | | | the well | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} The horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e4:o2:1 # text = The horse 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The donkey ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e4:o3:1 # text = The donkey 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The grey donkey by the gate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e4:o4:1 # text = The grey donkey by the gate 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 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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