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title: test: lol which farmyard bird got its tail shot off? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: lol which farmyard bird got its tail shot off? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

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test: lol which farmyard bird got its tail shot off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmyard bird, tail · **What happens:** get, shoot off · **To what, where:** test

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» 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/853-pg27200-part64/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t12:1
# text = test: lol which farmyard bird got its tail shot off?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
4	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | farmyard bird | test |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **shoot off** | past | bird's tail |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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a turkey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t12:o1:1
# text = a turkey
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	turkey	turkey	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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a goose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t12:o2:1
# text = a goose
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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a hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t12:o3:1
# text = a hen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the farm's big white goose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t12:o4:1
# text = the farm's big white goose
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	goose	goose	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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