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title: Dead serious, what tinkled on the flowers in the garden? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead serious, what tinkled on the flowers in the garden? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

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Dead serious, what tinkled on the flowers in the garden?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** tinkle · **To what, where:** flowers

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1742 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole and weds a flower prince» 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/1742-pg640-part66/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t13:1
# text = Dead serious, what tinkled on the flowers in the garden?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tinkle** | past |  |  |  | the flowers |  | in the garden | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flower=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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soft music

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t13:o1:1
# text = soft music
1	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	music	music	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 choir of tiny singing birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t13:o2:1
# text = a choir of tiny singing birds
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	choir	choir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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silver bells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t13:o3:1
# text = silver bells
1	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bells	bell	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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bells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t13:o4:1
# text = bells
1	bells	bell	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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