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title: Her bros were writing on golden slates in her dream, fr? — Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her bros were writing on golden slates in her dream, fr? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disgu…

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Her bros were writing on golden slates in her dream, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bros, her · **What happens:** write, dream · **To what, where:** golden slates

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» 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/1021-pg27200-part232/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t7:1
# text = Her bros were writing on golden slates in her dream, fr?
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bros	bro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	slates	slate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · progressive | Her bros |  |  | golden slates in her dream and fr |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on slate=Destination |
| 2 | **dream** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yep, with golden pens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t7:o1:1
# text = Yep, with golden pens
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pens	pen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fr, with diamond pencils, and they wrote about their deeds, no cap

<!-- fold The tree, 12 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t7:o2:1
# text = Fr, with diamond pencils, and they wrote about their deeds, no cap
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | pencils *= pencil* |  |  |  |  | about pencils's deeds | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about deed=Topic |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fr, with diamond pencils

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t7:o3:1
# text = Fr, with diamond pencils
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fr, they were writing with shiny diamond pencils on golden slates, bruh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1021-pg27200-part232:t7:o4:1
# text = Fr, they were writing with shiny diamond pencils on golden slates, bruh
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pencils	pencil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	slates	slate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · progressive | they |  |  |  |  | with shiny diamond pencils on golden slates; Fr *vocative* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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