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title: Mate, when did the swallow bounce back? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, when did the swallow bounce back? Test 3 · ★ 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 choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: she escapes the mole a…

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Mate, when did the swallow bounce back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** swallow · **What happens:** bounce back

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t3:1
# text = Mate, when did the swallow bounce back?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bounce	bounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce back** | past · do-support | the swallow |  |  |  |  | Mate *vocative* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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in the spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t3:o1:1
# text = in the spring
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spring	spring	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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in May

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t3:o2:1
# text = in May
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t3:o3:1
# text = in winter
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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in the autumn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1742-pg640-part66:t3:o4:1
# text = in the autumn
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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