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title: Bro, which lot took over last year's swallows' nest? — Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, which lot took over last year's swallows' nest? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 909 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner leave his cell, then a little girl says her prayers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner le…

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Bro, which lot took over last year's swallows' nest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lot · **What happens:** take over · **To what, where:** nest

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 909 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner leave his cell, then a little girl says her prayers» 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/909-pg27200-part120/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:909-pg27200-part120:t9:1
# text = Bro, which lot took over last year's swallows' nest?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take over** | past | which lot | last year's swallows's nest |  |  |  | Bro *vocative*; over *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |

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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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the robins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:909-pg27200-part120:t9:o1:1
# text = the robins
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	robins	robin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the starlings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:909-pg27200-part120:t9:o2:1
# text = the starlings
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	starlings	starling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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the sparrows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:909-pg27200-part120:t9:o3:1
# text = the sparrows
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the owls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:909-pg27200-part120:t9:o4:1
# text = the owls
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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