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title: Why did the Happy Island feel so chill? — Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the Happy Island feel so chill? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 4 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is t…

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Why did the Happy Island feel so chill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Happy Island, you · **What happens:** feel, chill

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» 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/1712-pg640-part36/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t4:1
# text = Why did the Happy Island feel so chill?
1	Why	why	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	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	chill	chill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | the Happy Island |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **chill** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Nobody was hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t4:o1:1
# text = Nobody was hungry
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Nobody |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Everyone was well fed and happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t4:o2:1
# text = Everyone was well fed and happy
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past · passive |  | Everyone |  |  |  | well *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |

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

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Nobody got hungry, thirsty, cold or hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t4:o3:1
# text = Nobody got hungry, thirsty, cold or hot
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Nobody |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The food was always fresh and nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t4:o4:1
# text = The food was always fresh and nice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the food |  |  |  |  | always, fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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