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title: how did the sword guy stay dry in the rain, bruv? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: how did the sword guy stay dry in the rain, bruv? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1624 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…

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how did the sword guy stay dry in the rain, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sword guy · **What happens:** stay · **To what, where:** rain

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1624 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter» 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/1624-pg5615-part13/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t11:1
# text = how did the sword guy stay dry in the rain, bruv?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · do-support | the sword guy |  |  | the rain and bruv |  | dry *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he used an umbrella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t11:o1:1
# text = he used an umbrella
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | he | a umbrella |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
under a tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t11:o2:1
# text = under a tree
1	under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
swinging the sword super fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t11:o3:1
# text = swinging the sword super fast
1	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	super	super	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | gerund |  | the sword |  |  |  | fast, super *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
running into the nearby pub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t11:o4:1
# text = running into the nearby pub
1	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pub	pub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into the nearby pub *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pub=Result |

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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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