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title: who swooped in and nabbed her, bruv? — Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny g… · tree and pragmatics
description: who swooped in and nabbed her, bruv? Test 8 · ★ 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 was rig
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flo…

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who swooped in and nabbed her, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** swoop, nab · **To what, where:** her

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t8:1
# text = who swooped in and nabbed her, bruv?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nabbed	nab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swoop** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nab** | past |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | bruv *obl* | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A cockchafer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t8:o1:1
# text = A cockchafer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A dragonfly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t8:o2:1
# text = A dragonfly
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragonfly	dragonfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A large brown cockchafer with long antennae

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t8:o3:1
# text = A large brown cockchafer with long antennae
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	antennae	antennae	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A great cockchafer flying from the tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t8:o4:1
# text = A great cockchafer flying from the tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund | a great cockchafer *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory |

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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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