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title: fr, so where was the swallow's nest? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, so where was the swallow's nest? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, so where was the swallow's nest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» 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/890-pg27200-part101/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t4:1
# text = fr, so where was the swallow's nest?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | 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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on the thatched roof of the huntsman's cottage by the moor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t4:o1:1
# text = on the thatched roof of the huntsman's cottage by the moor
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	thatched	thatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thatch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in the huntsman's barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t4:o2:1
# text = in the huntsman's barn
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	barn	barn	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 -->
on the roof of the huntsman's house, high above the marsh road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t4:o3:1
# text = on the roof of the huntsman's house, high above the marsh road
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
11	above	above	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
on the huntsman's roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t4:o4:1
# text = on the huntsman's roof
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	roof	roof	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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