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title: no cap, who chased them the third time? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fundevogel: the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, who chased them the third time? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 740 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fundevogel: the children escape the cook by magic» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fundevogel: the children escape the c…

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no cap, who chased them the third time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** chase · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 740 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fundevogel: the children escape the cook by magic» 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/740-pg2591-part16/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:740-pg2591-part16:t8:1
# text = no cap, who chased them the third time?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | past | no cap | them *= they* |  |  | time |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 forester

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:740-pg2591-part16:t8:o1:1
# text = the forester
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	forester	forester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the servants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:740-pg2591-part16:t8:o2:1
# text = the servants
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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her youngest maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:740-pg2591-part16:t8:o3:1
# text = her youngest maid
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the cook herself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:740-pg2591-part16:t8:o4:1
# text = the cook herself
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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