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title: Was the girl's pad full of snail-shell fountains, for real? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the girl's pad full of snail-shell fountains, for real? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1655 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part…

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Was the girl's pad full of snail-shell fountains, for real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pad

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1655 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter» 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/1655-pg5615-part44/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:t5:1
# text = Was the girl's pad full of snail-shell fountains, for real?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	pad	pad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the girl's pad |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Yup, from rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:t5:o1:1
# text = Yup, from rocks
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they came from mussel shells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:t5:o2:1
# text = Nah, they came from mussel shells
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	mussel	mussel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | they |  |  | mussel shells |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from shell=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yup, they spouted from snail shells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:t5:o3:1
# text = Yup, they spouted from snail shells
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spouted	spout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spout** | past | they | Yup |  | snail shells |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from shell=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yup, they sprayed from pearl bowls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:t5:o4:1
# text = Yup, they sprayed from pearl bowls
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sprayed	spray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bowls	bowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spray** | past | Yup |  |  | pearl bowls |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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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