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title: Dude, who's even telling this creepy house story? — Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Win… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, who's even telling this creepy house story? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1027 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind tells of the Borreby house and its wild May feast» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…

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Dude, who's even telling this creepy house story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude, this · **What happens:** tell, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1027 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind tells of the Borreby house and its wild May feast» 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/1027-pg27200-part238/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t1:1
# text = Dude, who's even telling this creepy house story?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
8	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **story** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | 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}

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The old miller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t1:o1:1
# text = The old miller
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The old fisherman's ghost who haunts the village shore at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t1:o2:1
# text = The old fisherman's ghost who haunts the village shore at night
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	haunts	haunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haunt** | present | the old fisherman's ghost | the village shore |  |  | night |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shore=Experiencer |
| 2 | **ghost** |  | the old fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Some random wisp from the old castle ruins, honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t1:o3:1
# text = Some random wisp from the old castle ruins, honestly
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wisp	wisp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Wind, obvs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t1:o4:1
# text = The Wind, obvs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	obvs	obv	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	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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