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title: what came creeping up from the river after, all spooky? — Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what came creeping up from the river after, all spooky? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 13 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

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what came creeping up from the river after, all spooky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** come, creep up · **To what, where:** river

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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/1732-pg640-part56/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t13:1
# text = what came creeping up from the river after, all spooky?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	after	after	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	spooky	spooky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep up** | gerund |  |  |  | the river |  | after *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from river=Trajectory |

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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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a ghost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t13:o1:1
# text = a ghost
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the old troll's ghost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t13:o2:1
# text = the old troll's ghost
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ghost** |  | the old troll |  |  |  |  |  | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a dark shadow figure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t13:o3:1
# text = a dark shadow figure
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t13:o4:1
# text = the wind
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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