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title: that mole had the most cursed legs ever, they were bandy — Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65:… · tree and pragmatics
description: that mole had the most cursed legs ever, they were bandy Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1741 «Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a frozen swallow and nurses him back to life» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a…

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that mole had the most cursed legs ever, they were bandy

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mole, legs · **What happens:** have, curse, be · **To what, where:** cursed legs

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1741 «Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a frozen swallow and nurses him back to life» 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/1741-pg640-part65/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1741-pg640-part65:t8:1
# text = that mole had the most cursed legs ever, they were bandy
1	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	bandy	bandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | that mole | the cursed legs |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **curse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  | bandy *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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ikr, bowed out at the knee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1741-pg640-part65:t8:o1:1
# text = ikr, bowed out at the knee
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow out** | participle |  |  |  | the knee |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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ikr, crooked at the feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1741-pg640-part65:t8:o2:1
# text = ikr, crooked at the feet
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	crooked	crook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crook** | participle |  | ikr *not said here* |  | the feet |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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ikr, bowed out at the knee like a bent stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1741-pg640-part65:t8:o3:1
# text = ikr, bowed out at the knee like a bent stick
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow out** | participle · passive |  | ikr |  | the knee |  | like a bent stick | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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ikr, bent in at the knee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1741-pg640-part65:t8:o4:1
# text = ikr, bent in at the knee
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | participle |  | ikr *not said here* |  | the knee |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in knee=Location |

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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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