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title: Lol where'd the gnat hide to sting him? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol where'd the gnat hide to sting him? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…

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Lol where'd the gnat hide to sting him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** gnat · **What happens:** hide, sting · **To what, where:** gnat

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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/1020-pg27200-part231/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t6:1
# text = Lol where'd the gnat hide to sting him?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gnat	gnat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | would | the gnat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sting** | to-infinitive | the gnat *not said here* | gnat |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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Behind the gilded figurehead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t6:o1:1
# text = Behind the gilded figurehead
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	figurehead	figurehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Inside one of the coverings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t6:o2:1
# text = Inside one of the coverings
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coverings	covering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Under the ship's wooden deck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t6:o3:1
# text = Under the ship's wooden deck
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deck	deck	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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Hidden deep in one of the thick cloth tents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1020-pg27200-part231:t6:o4:1
# text = Hidden deep in one of the thick cloth tents
1	Hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in one of the thick cloth tents; deep *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location |

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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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