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title: bro, how high were those opera boxes? — Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228:… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, how high were those opera boxes? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1017 «Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna sing at the opera, then sets out north over the mountains» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna si…

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bro, how high were those opera boxes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** opera boxes

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1017 «Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna sing at the opera, then sets out north over the mountains» 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/1017-pg27200-part228/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1017-pg27200-part228:t9:1
# text = bro, how high were those opera boxes?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	opera	opera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bro | that opera boxes |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Very low

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1017-pg27200-part228:t9:o1:1
# text = Very low
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Up to a dizzy height

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1017-pg27200-part228:t9:o2:1
# text = Up to a dizzy height
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Almost to the roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1017-pg27200-part228:t9:o3:1
# text = Almost to the roof
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Not high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1017-pg27200-part228:t9:o4:1
# text = Not high
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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