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title: fr, what did the thieves think the falling nuts were? — Household Tales, Frederick and Catheri… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did the thieves think the falling nuts were? Test 4 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

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fr, what did the thieves think the falling nuts were?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fr, thieves · **What happens:** do, think, fall, be · **To what, where:** falling nuts

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t4:1
# text = fr, what did the thieves think the falling nuts were?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
10	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fr |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the thieves |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the falling nuts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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hail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t4:o1:1
# text = hail
1	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t4:o2:1
# text = ice
1	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a shower of heavy stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t4:o3:1
# text = a shower of heavy stones
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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sleet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t4:o4:1
# text = sleet
1	sleet	sleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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