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title: fam, who sat down and made a fire under the tree? — Household Tales, Frederick and Catheri… · tree and pragmatics
description: fam, who sat down and made a fire under the tree? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

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fam, who sat down and made a fire under the tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam · **What happens:** sit down, make · **To what, where:** fire, tree

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t9:1
# text = fam, who sat down and made a fire under the tree?
1	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | fam |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | fam *not said here* | a fire |  | the tree |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |

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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 {#o1}

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Frederick and his wicked brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t9:o1:1
# text = Frederick and his wicked brother
1	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t9:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the thieves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t9:o3:1
# text = the thieves
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the two travelling merchants from town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t9:o4:1
# text = the two travelling merchants from town
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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