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title: what was all over his face, lol? — Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was all over his face, lol? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1546 «Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees death, but the voice still finds his family» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

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what was all over his face, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** face

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1546 «Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees death, but the voice still finds his family» 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/1546-pg540-part43/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t7:1
# text = what was all over his face, lol?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | his face |  | all *property* | 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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a big pile of soap lather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t7:o1:1
# text = a big pile of soap lather
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lather	lather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a thick white soap foam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t7:o2:1
# text = a thick white soap foam
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	foam	foam	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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a big blob of shaving cream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t7:o3:1
# text = a big blob of shaving cream
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blob	blob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	shaving	shave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shave** | gerund | a big blob *not said here* | cream |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cream=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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shaving soap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t7:o4:1
# text = shaving soap
1	shaving	shave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shave** | gerund |  | soap |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Patient |

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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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