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title: Yo, who was chillin' on that grass carpet first, like, the stars? — Andersen, The Story of the Year, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who was chillin' on that grass carpet first, like, the stars? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

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Yo, who was chillin' on that grass carpet first, like, the stars?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** chillin, grass carpet

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1032 «Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in autumn and the old Winter waits for the stork» 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/1032-pg27200-part243/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t1:1
# text = Yo, who was chillin' on that grass carpet first, like, the stars?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	chillin	chillin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | chillin and the stars |  | that grass carpet |  |  | 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 young children of Spring and their dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t1:o1:1
# text = the young children of Spring and their dogs
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the sleepy old farmers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t1:o2:1
# text = the sleepy old farmers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the sparrows that were singing in the nearby hedge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t1:o3:1
# text = the sparrows that were singing in the nearby hedge
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the sparrows |  |  | the nearby hedge |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hedge=Location |

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

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the young children of Spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t1:o4:1
# text = the young children of Spring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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