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title: that guy called the flower a gauk, wdym gauk? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop:… · tree and pragmatics
description: that guy called the flower a gauk, wdym gauk? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

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that guy called the flower a gauk, wdym gauk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** guy · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** flower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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/987-pg27200-part198/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t3:1
# text = that guy called the flower a gauk, wdym gauk?
1	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gauk	gauk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	wdym	wdym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gauk	gauk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | that guy and wdym gauk *not said here* | the flower |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flower=Recipient |

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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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a thrush, and a dope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t3:o1:1
# text = a thrush, and a dope
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thrush	thrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dope	dope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a cuckoo, and a fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t3:o2:1
# text = a cuckoo, and a fool
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t3:o3:1
# text = a bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t3:o4:1
# text = a fool
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fool	fool	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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