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title: so what does the old lady in her dream tell her to grab, dude? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what does the old lady in her dream tell her to grab, dude? Test 7 · ★ 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza fl…

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so what does the old lady in her dream tell her to grab, dude?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** her · **What happens:** do, tell, grab, dude, dream · **To what, where:** old lady, dream, her · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t7:1
# text = so what does the old lady in her dream tell her to grab, dude?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dude	dude	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the old lady |  | her dream |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **grab** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dude** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a stinging nettle from a churchyard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t7:o1:1
# text = a stinging nettle from a churchyard
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	amod	_	_
3	nettle	nettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
some bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t7:o2:1
# text = some bread
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a sprig of thorn from a hedgerow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t7:o3:1
# text = a sprig of thorn from a hedgerow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sprig	sprig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hedgerow	hedgerow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a flower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1022-pg27200-part233:t7:o4:1
# text = a flower
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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