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title: Lol, why did the old ruler get the white hair, honestly? — Andersen, The Story of the Year, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, why did the old ruler get the white hair, honestly? Test 7 · ★ 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 and of e
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, The Story of the Year, part 243: Summer rests in…

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Lol, why did the old ruler get the white hair, honestly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old ruler · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** white hair

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t7:1
# text = Lol, why did the old ruler get the white hair, honestly?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	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	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 old ruler | the white hair |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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from the snowy time of winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t7:o1:1
# text = from the snowy time of winter
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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from the cold north wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t7:o2:1
# text = from the cold north wind
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wind	wind	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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from frost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t7:o3:1
# text = from frost
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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from the long cold of the year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1032-pg27200-part243:t7:o4:1
# text = from the long cold of the year
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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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