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title: Bruv, how did the dolls end up dancing? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, how did the dolls end up dancing? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

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Bruv, how did the dolls end up dancing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dolls · **What happens:** do, end up, dance

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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/1008-pg27200-part219/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t3:1
# text = Bruv, how did the dolls end up dancing?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **end up** | present | the dolls |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dance** | gerund | the dolls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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John's mate rubbed six dolls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t3:o1:1
# text = John's mate rubbed six dolls
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | John's mate | six dolls |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent doll=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ointment did it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t3:o2:1
# text = Ointment did it
1	Ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ointment | it |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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

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John's mate put ointment on six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t3:o3:1
# text = John's mate put ointment on six
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | John's mate | ointment |  | six |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ointment=Theme on six=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The showman rubbed them all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t3:o4:1
# text = The showman rubbed them all
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	showman	showman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | the showman | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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