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description: Okay, so who was the fam that said "peep" and did the foot scrape thing? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

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Okay, so who was the fam that said "peep" and did the foot scrape thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam · **What happens:** be, say, do, scrape · **To what, where:** fam, peep, foot, thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 911 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their old neighbours at Thorwaldsen's grave» 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/911-pg27200-part122/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t2:1
# text = Okay, so who was the fam that said "peep" and did the foot scrape thing?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the fam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fam | peep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | the fam *not said here* | the foot |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Eventuality |
| 4 | **scrape** | infinitive |  | thing |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

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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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the robins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t2: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 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the sparrows who lived under the eaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t2:o2:1
# text = the sparrows who lived under the eaves
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eaves	eave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the sparrows |  |  | the eaves |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under eave=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the little grey sparrows from the burned house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t2:o3:1
# text = the little grey sparrows from the burned house
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the sparrows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t2:o4:1
# 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.

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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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