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title: honestly the dress sounds fire, a sunbeam dancing on ice, right? — Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brot… · tree and pragmatics
description: honestly the dress sounds fire, a sunbeam dancing on ice, right? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
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# Test 12 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
honestly the dress sounds fire, a sunbeam dancing on ice, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dress, sunbeam · **What happens:** sound, dance · **To what, where:** fire, ice

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» 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/1222-pg3282-part23/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1222-pg3282-part23:t12:1
# text = honestly the dress sounds fire, a sunbeam dancing on ice, right?
1	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | the dress | fire |  |  |  | a sunbeam *obl*; honestly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | gerund | a sunbeam *not said here* |  |  | ice |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it glittered like crazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1222-pg3282-part23:t12:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it glittered like crazy
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like crazy | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was kinda plain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1222-pg3282-part23:t12:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it was kinda plain
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | kinda, plain *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it glittered like crazy all over, sewn with pearls and gold from the palace

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1222-pg3282-part23:t12:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it glittered like crazy all over, sewn with pearls and gold from the palace
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like crazy; over *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sew** | participle |  |  |  | the palace |  | with pearls and gold | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from palace=Material |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it looked quite dull

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1222-pg3282-part23:t12:o4:1
# text = Nah, it looked quite dull
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | it |  |  |  |  | dull *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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