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title: what was the supper, was it just normal food? — Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the supper, was it just normal food? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1505 «Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides under a bed, follows the princesses to a magic ball, and Lina catches on» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides und…

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what was the supper, was it just normal food?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** normal food, supper · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** supper, normal food

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1505 «Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides under a bed, follows the princesses to a magic ball, and Lina catches on» 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/1505-pg540-part2/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1505-pg540-part2:t12:1
# text = what was the supper, was it just normal food?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | normal food | the supper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the supper | normal food |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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sugared orange flowers and rose leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1505-pg540-part2:t12:o1:1
# text = sugared orange flowers and rose leaves
1	sugared	sugar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sugar** | past |  | orange flowers |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Destination |
| 2 | **rise** | past |  | leaves |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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sugared orange flowers, rose leaves and crisp golden cakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1505-pg540-part2:t12:o2:1
# text = sugared orange flowers, rose leaves and crisp golden cakes
1	sugared	sugar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	crisp	crisp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sugar** | past |  | orange flowers |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Destination |
| 2 | **rise** | past |  | leaves and crisp golden cakes |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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fine pastries and spiced wine cups

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1505-pg540-part2:t12:o3:1
# text = fine pastries and spiced wine cups
1	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pastries	pastry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
4	spiced	spice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spice** | past | fine pastries | wine cups |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cup=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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cakes and wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1505-pg540-part2:t12:o4:1
# text = cakes and wine
1	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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