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title: bruh the rock is tiny, so how did they all fit on it? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh the rock is tiny, so how did they all fit on it? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1022 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza flies over the sea and waits on a tiny rock» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza fl…

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bruh the rock is tiny, so how did they all fit on it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rock, they · **What happens:** be, fit · **To what, where:** rock

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1022 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza flies over the sea and waits on a tiny rock» 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/1022-pg27200-part233/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t3:1
# text = bruh the rock is tiny, so how did they all fit on it?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	advmod	_	_
12	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the rock |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | past · do-support | they |  |  | rock |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on it=Trajectory |

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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 -->
they sat on the rock one by one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t3:o1:1
# text = they sat on the rock one by one
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | they |  |  | the rock |  | by one | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
some stood on each other's shoulders while the rest hovered above them in the wind all night

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t3:o2:1
# text = some stood on each other's shoulders while the rest hovered above them in the wind all night
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	hovered	hover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	above	above	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | some | the rest |  | each other's shoulders | night |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location |
| 2 | **hover** | participle |  | the rest *not said here* |  | the wind |  | above shoulders *= shoulder* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they slept in a heap of feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t3:o3:1
# text = they slept in a heap of feathers
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | they |  |  | a heap of feathers |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they stood close, arms linked together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t3:o4:1
# text = they stood close, arms linked together
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | they | arms |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **link** | participle |  | arms *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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