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title: Gotta ask, what happens when the storks flap too slow at the review? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gotta ask, what happens when the storks flap too slow at the review? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

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Gotta ask, what happens when the storks flap too slow at the review?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gotta, storks · **What happens:** ask, happen, flap · **To what, where:** slow

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» 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/993-pg27200-part204/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t13:1
# text = Gotta ask, what happens when the storks flap too slow at the review?
1	Gotta	Gotta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	flap	flap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	review	review	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Gotta |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flap** | present | the storks | slow |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slow=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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He pokes them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t13:o1:1
# text = He pokes them
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pokes	poke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | present | He | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The general spears them with a tall pole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t13:o2:1
# text = The general spears them with a tall pole
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spears	spear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spear** | present | the general | them *= they* |  |  |  | with a tall pole | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with pole=Instrument |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The general pokes them with his beak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t13:o3:1
# text = The general pokes them with his beak
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pokes	poke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke** | present | the general | them *= they* |  |  |  | with general's beak | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent they=Theme with beak=Instrument |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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They get stabbed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:993-pg27200-part204:t13:o4:1
# text = They get stabbed
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stabbed	stab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stab** | participle | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «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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