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title: bro the caterpillar was going full drama, right — Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad cli… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…

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bro the caterpillar was going full drama, right

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** caterpillar · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** full drama

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t4:1
# text = bro the caterpillar was going full drama, right
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | the caterpillar | full drama |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drama=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was all about its property and its leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t4:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it was all about its property and its leaf
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | about its property and its leaf; all *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was all about its property and its leaf and its big scene

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t4:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it was all about its property and its leaf and its big scene
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | about its property and its leaf and leaf's big scene; all *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it went on about its leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it went on about its leaf
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | it |  |  |  |  | about its leaf | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about leaf=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it was pretty calm, it only talked about its leaf and the hen once

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1004-pg27200-part215:t4:o4:1
# text = Nah, it was pretty calm, it only talked about its leaf and the hen once
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | calm, pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | past | it |  |  |  |  | about its leaf and the hen; once *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about leaf=Topic |

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