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title: Bruv, how was the swallow looking in the mole's tunnel? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, how was the swallow looking in the mole's tunnel? Test 2 · ★ 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 choic
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

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Bruv, how was the swallow looking in the mole's tunnel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** swallow · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** swallow

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t2:1
# text = Bruv, how was the swallow looking in the mole's tunnel?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the swallow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the swallow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the mole's tunnel | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in tunnel=Theme |

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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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fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t2:o1:1
# text = fine
1	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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proper ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t2:o2:1
# text = proper ill
1	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t2:o3:1
# text = well
1	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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very hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t2:o4:1
# text = very hungry
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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