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title: Sorted, what did Marie stick a whip into? — Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sorted, what did Marie stick a whip into? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

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Sorted, what did Marie stick a whip into?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Marie · **What happens:** sort, stick · **To what, where:** whip

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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/948-pg27200-part159/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t5:1
# text = Sorted, what did Marie stick a whip into?
1	Sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stick** | past · do-support | Marie | a whip |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent what=Theme whip=Destination |

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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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the hunting-dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t5:o1:1
# text = the hunting-dogs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	dogs	dog	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 dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t5:o2:1
# text = the dogs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the stable cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t5:o3:1
# text = the stable cat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stable	stable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 wolf-hounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t5:o4:1
# text = the wolf-hounds
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hounds	hound	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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