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title: honestly was the toad a good hero or just lucky — Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad cli… · tree and pragmatics
description: honestly was the toad a good hero or just lucky Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1004 «Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well and goes hunting for a better world» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…

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honestly was the toad a good hero or just lucky

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** toad

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1004 «Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well and goes hunting for a better world» 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/1004-pg27200-part215/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t12:1
# text = honestly was the toad a good hero or just lucky
1	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the toad |  |  |  | honestly *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 {#o1}

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Kinda both, she saved the hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t12:o1:1
# text = Kinda both, she saved the hen
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past | she | the hen |  |  |  | kinda *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kinda both, she helped the caterpillar out a bit, though it was mostly luck

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t12:o2:1
# text = Kinda both, she helped the caterpillar out a bit, though it was mostly luck
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help out** | past | she |  | the caterpillar |  |  | a bit *obl:unmarked*; kinda *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | past | caterpillar | luck |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kinda both, she helped the caterpillar out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t12:o3:1
# text = Kinda both, she helped the caterpillar out
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help out** | past | she |  | the caterpillar |  |  | kinda *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kinda both, she helped the caterpillar out and got lucky too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t12:o4:1
# text = Kinda both, she helped the caterpillar out and got lucky too
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help out** | past | she |  | the caterpillar |  |  | kinda *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **get** | past | she *not said here* | lucky |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lucky=Stimulus |

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