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title: what did she see in the graveyard, innit? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did she see in the graveyard, innit? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1023 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 234: Eliza spins nettles in silence, is taken to the king's castle, and is made queen while she still cannot speak.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 234: Eliza sp…

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what did she see in the graveyard, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** see, innit · **To what, where:** graveyard

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1023 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 234: Eliza spins nettles in silence, is taken to the king's castle, and is made queen while she still cannot speak.» 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/1023-pg27200-part234/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1023-pg27200-part234:t8:1
# text = what did she see in the graveyard, innit?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · do-support | she |  |  | the graveyard |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 -->
just ghouls, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1023-pg27200-part234:t8:o1:1
# text = just ghouls, innit
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ghouls	ghoul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a priest digging up the bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1023-pg27200-part234:t8:o2:1
# text = a priest digging up the bones
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | gerund | a priest *not said here* | the bones |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |

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

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ghouls clawing open the graves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1023-pg27200-part234:t8:o3:1
# text = ghouls clawing open the graves
1	ghouls	ghoul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	clawing	claw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claw** | gerund | ghouls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive | ghouls | the graves |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grave=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ghouls, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1023-pg27200-part234:t8:o4:1
# text = ghouls, bruv
1	ghouls	ghoul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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