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title: why'd the fowls even come to the yard, honestly? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese… · tree and pragmatics
description: why'd the fowls even come to the yard, honestly? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

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why'd the fowls even come to the yard, honestly?

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

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» 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/942-pg27200-part153/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t13:1
# text = why'd the fowls even come to the yard, honestly?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | the fowls |  |  |  |  | to the yard; honestly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to yard=Initial\_Location |

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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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to swim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t13:o1:1
# text = to swim
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
for a bath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t13:o2:1
# text = for a bath
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bath	bath	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}

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to find food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t13:o3:1
# text = to find food
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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for grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t13:o4:1
# text = for grain
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	grain	grain	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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