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title: Honestly, why did the daughters get all the drip? — Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Win… · tree and pragmatics
description: Honestly, why did the daughters get all the drip? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…

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Honestly, why did the daughters get all the drip?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** daughters · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** drip

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t6:1
# text = Honestly, why did the daughters get all the drip?
1	Honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	drip	drip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | the daughters | all drip |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drip=Stimulus |

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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}

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Just because

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t6:o1:1
# text = Just because
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Cause their dad was loaded, flex

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t6:o2:1
# text = Cause their dad was loaded, flex
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	loaded	load	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	flex	flex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* | flex |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **load** | past · passive |  | their dad |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cuz they're rich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t6:o3:1
# text = Cuz they're rich
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they | Cuz *not said here* |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |

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

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They were born rich, so flex

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1027-pg27200-part238:t6:o4:1
# text = They were born rich, so flex
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	flex	flex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | They |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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