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title: Wait, why was the dog's stare so mental? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, why was the dog's stare so mental? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1737 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier gets rich from three dogs and a witch's trick» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…

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Wait, why was the dog's stare so mental?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** stare

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1737 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier gets rich from three dogs and a witch's trick» 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/1737-pg640-part61/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1737-pg640-part61:t2:1
# text = Wait, why was the dog's stare so mental?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	stare	stare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the dog's stare |  |  |  |  | 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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Cos it was ever so tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1737-pg640-part61:t2:o1:1
# text = Cos it was ever so tired
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tired	tired	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 | it |  |  |  | ever | tired *property* | tree rules |

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

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Cos its eyes were like saucers, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1737-pg640-part61:t2:o2:1
# text = Cos its eyes were like saucers, innit
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	saucers	saucer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | its eyes |  |  |  |  | like saucers and innit | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cos its eyes were like saucers and it was guarding the copper chest, innit

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1737-pg640-part61:t2:o3:1
# text = Cos its eyes were like saucers and it was guarding the copper chest, innit
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	saucers	saucer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | its eyes |  |  |  |  | like saucers | tree rules |
| 2 | **guard** | past · progressive | it | the copper chest and innit |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cos its eyes were huge like mill-wheels and it had been up all night, bruv

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1737-pg640-part61:t2:o4:1
# text = Cos its eyes were huge like mill-wheels and it had been up all night, bruv
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | its eyes |  |  |  |  | like mill wheels; huge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | it | all night and bruv |  |  |  |  | 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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