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title: which fowls were fancy with feathers on their legs? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese… · tree and pragmatics
description: which fowls were fancy with feathers on their legs? Test 7 · ★ 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
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

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which fowls were fancy with feathers on their legs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** fowl, be

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t7:1
# text = which fowls were fancy with feathers on their legs?
1	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fowls	fowl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fowl** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with feathers on feathers's legs | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | fancy *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cochin Chinese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t7:o1:1
# text = Cochin Chinese
1	Cochin	Cochin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the fancy Cochin Chinese hens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t7:o2:1
# text = the fancy Cochin Chinese hens
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Cochin	cochin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the two Chinese fowls from the coop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t7:o3:1
# text = the two Chinese fowls from the coop
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	coop	coop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Silkie bantams

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t7:o4:1
# text = Silkie bantams
1	Silkie	silkie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bantams	bantam	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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