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title: lol who even dug up the yellow buttons? — Household Tales, Frederick and Catheri… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol who even dug up the yellow buttons? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» 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 2 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

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lol who even dug up the yellow buttons?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** dig up · **To what, where:** yellow buttons

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» 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/753-pg2591-part29/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t2:1
# text = lol who even dug up the yellow buttons?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | past |  | the yellow buttons |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent button=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 poor widow who lived beside the well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t2:o1:1
# text = the poor widow who lived beside the well
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the poor widow |  |  | the well |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside well=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Frederick's two hired workers from the mill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t2:o2:1
# text = Frederick's two hired workers from the mill
1	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	hired	hire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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the soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t2:o3:1
# text = the soldiers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 pedlars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t2:o4:1
# text = the pedlars
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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