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title: bro what did the stork poke a hole through? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro what did the stork poke a hole through? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bro what did the stork poke a hole through?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stork · **What happens:** poke · **To what, where:** hole

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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/888-pg27200-part99/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t8:1
# text = bro what did the stork poke a hole through?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	poke	poke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | past · do-support | the stork | a hole |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the wooden shutter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t8:o1:1
# text = the wooden shutter
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shutter	shutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the bladder-covered window of the high castle tower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t8:o2:1
# text = the bladder-covered window of the high castle tower
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the bladder-covered window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t8:o3:1
# text = the bladder-covered window
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	bladder	bladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the tall bladder-covered window of the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t8:o4:1
# text = the tall bladder-covered window of the hall
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	bladder	bladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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