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title: what's sloe, lol? — Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's sloe, lol? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what's sloe, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sloe

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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/1019-pg27200-part230/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t5:1
# text = what's sloe, lol?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sloe	sloe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | sloe |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a small wild sour berry that grows on blackthorn bushes and makes your mouth pucker up badly

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t5:o1:1
# text = a small wild sour berry that grows on blackthorn bushes and makes your mouth pucker up badly
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	blackthorn	blackthorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	pucker	pucker	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | a small wild sour berry |  |  | blackthorn bushes |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=Location |
| 2 | **make** | present | a small wild sour berry *not said here* | your mouth |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouth=Product |
| 3 | **pucker up** | present | a small wild sour berry |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a little bitter herb from the hedge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t5:o2:1
# text = a little bitter herb from the hedge
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sour berry that makes your mouth pucker and is used to make gin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t5:o3:1
# text = a sour berry that makes your mouth pucker and is used to make gin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pucker	pucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a sour berry | your mouth pucker |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pucker=Product |
| 2 | **use** | present · passive |  | a sour berry |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | gin |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gin=Product |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sour berry that makes your mouth pucker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1019-pg27200-part230:t5:o4:1
# text = a sour berry that makes your mouth pucker
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pucker	pucker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a sour berry | your mouth pucker |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pucker=Product |

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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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