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title: No cap, where did the sparrows' nest come from? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, where did the sparrows' nest come from? Test 3 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Rose-Tree: sparrows find their…

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No cap, where did the sparrows' nest come from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** come

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t3:1
# text = No cap, where did the sparrows' nest come from?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · do-support | no cap |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 old stables

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t3:o1:1
# text = the old stables
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stables	stable	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 barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t3:o2:1
# text = the barn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the burned house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t3:o3:1
# text = the burned house
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the ruined house by the old river bridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:911-pg27200-part122:t3:o4:1
# text = the ruined house by the old river bridge
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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