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title: what did she row with, nang? — Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny g… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did she row with, nang? Test 9 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flo…

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what did she row with, nang?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** row

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t9:1
# text = what did she row with, nang?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nang	Nang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row** | past · do-support | she |  |  |  |  | nang *vocative* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent what=Location |

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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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Twigs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t9:o1:1
# text = Twigs
1	Twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Spider silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t9:o2:1
# text = Spider silk
1	Spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Horse-hairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t9:o3:1
# text = Horse-hairs
1	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Reeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1740-pg640-part64:t9:o4:1
# text = Reeds
1	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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