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title: what got her out of the toad's grip, mate? — Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny g… · tree and pragmatics
description: what got her out of the toad's grip, mate? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1740 «Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flower and a toad tries to steal her» 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 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flo…

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what got her out of the toad's grip, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** toad · **What happens:** get, grip · **To what, where:** her, grip

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1740 «Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flower and a toad tries to steal her» 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/1740-pg640-part64/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t11:1
# text = what got her out of the toad's grip, mate?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | her *= she* |  | the toad's grip |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grip** |  | the toad |  |  |  |  |  | nom grip «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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A passing cockchafer that nibbled the stem of the lily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t11:o1:1
# text = A passing cockchafer that nibbled the stem of the lily
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	nibbled	nibble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **nibble** | past | a passing cockchafer | the stem of the lily |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient |
| 3 | **stem** |  |  | the lily |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fishes pulling the leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t11:o2:1
# text = Fishes pulling the leaf
1	Fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | gerund | Fishes *not said here* | the leaf |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |

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

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Fishes nibbling the stem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t11:o3:1
# text = Fishes nibbling the stem
1	Fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	nibbling	nibble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nibble** | gerund | Fishes *not said here* | the stem |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fishes nibbling the stem of the leaf until it broke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t11:o4:1
# text = Fishes nibbling the stem of the leaf until it broke
1	Fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	nibbling	nibble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
10	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nibble** | gerund | Fishes *not said here* | the stem of the leaf |  |  | until leaf |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | past | Fishes |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stem** |  |  | the leaf |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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