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title: sus little boys in the reeds hauling the bottle home, who were they — Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a b… · tree and pragmatics
description: sus little boys in the reeds hauling the bottle home, who were they Test 10 · ★ of lesson 805 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a bottle finds a new owner, a sailor's farewell, and a foreign shore» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a bottle finds a new ow…

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sus little boys in the reeds hauling the bottle home, who were they

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** reeds, sus little boys · **What happens:** haul, be · **To what, where:** bottle

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 805 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck: a bottle finds a new owner, a sailor's farewell, and a foreign shore» 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/805-pg27200-part16/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:805-pg27200-part16:t10:1
# text = sus little boys in the reeds hauling the bottle home, who were they
1	sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	hauling	haul	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul** | gerund | the reeds *not said here* | the bottle |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | sus little boys in the reeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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three farm workers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:805-pg27200-part16:t10:o1:1
# text = three farm workers
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:805-pg27200-part16:t10:o2:1
# text = a farmer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two village girls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:805-pg27200-part16:t10:o3:1
# text = two village girls
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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two peasant boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:805-pg27200-part16:t10:o4:1
# text = two peasant boys
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boys	boy	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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