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title: sus, who came tumbling down the chimney? — Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Wen… · tree and pragmatics
description: sus, who came tumbling down the chimney? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Test 6 · ★ · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

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sus, who came tumbling down the chimney?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sus · **What happens:** come, tumble down · **To what, where:** chimney

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» 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/1435-pg503-part22/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t6:1
# text = sus, who came tumbling down the chimney?
1	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | sus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tumble down** | gerund | sus *not said here* | the chimney |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chimney=Theme |

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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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A cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t6:o1:1
# text = A cat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Half a man and a bunch of bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t6:o2:1
# text = Half a man and a bunch of bones
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Half a man covered in soot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t6:o3:1
# text = Half a man covered in soot
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | half man *not said here* |  |  |  | in soot | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in soot=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Half a man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t6:o4:1
# text = Half a man
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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