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title: Lol, what did the guests do with the leftover bones? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the guests do with the leftover bones? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

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Lol, what did the guests do with the leftover bones?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** guests · **What happens:** do

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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/889-pg27200-part100/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t3:1
# text = Lol, what did the guests do with the leftover bones?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	leftover	leftover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the guests |  |  |  |  | with the leftover bones | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Chucked them at each other

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t3:o1:1
# text = Chucked them at each other
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	1	obl	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | participle |  | them *= they* |  | each |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at each=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tossed the leftover bones at each other across the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t3:o2:1
# text = Tossed the leftover bones at each other across the table
1	Tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	leftover	leftover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	1	obl	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | past |  | the leftover bones |  | each |  | across the table | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme at each=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tossed them at dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t3:o3:1
# text = Tossed them at dogs
1	Tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | at dogs | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at dog=Destination |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Threw the old picked bones at each other

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t3:o4:1
# text = Threw the old picked bones at each other
1	Threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	1	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past |  | the old picked bones |  | each |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme at each=Destination |
| 2 | **pick** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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