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title: So what's the shepherd tale about, mate? — Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what's the shepherd tale about, mate? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

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So what's the shepherd tale about, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** shepherd tale · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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/829-pg27200-part40/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t12:1
# text = So what's the shepherd tale about, mate?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the shepherd tale  mate |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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a wolf and a hare meeting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t12:o1:1
# text = a wolf and a hare meeting
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a stag and a roebuck dying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t12:o2:1
# text = a stag and a roebuck dying
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	roebuck	roebuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | gerund | a stag and a roebuck *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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two proud deer who argue until one of them falls down dead in the snow

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t12:o3:1
# text = two proud deer who argue until one of them falls down dead in the snow
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | two proud deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall down** | present | one of deer |  |  | the snow |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in snow=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a stag and a roebuck dying in the forest after a long hunt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t12:o4:1
# text = a stag and a roebuck dying in the forest after a long hunt
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	roebuck	roebuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | gerund | a stag and a roebuck *not said here* |  |  |  | after a long hunt | in the forest | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute |

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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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