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title: Wait, what was the brothers' vibe riding ahead? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what was the brothers' vibe riding ahead? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…

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Wait, what was the brothers' vibe riding ahead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** vibe riding

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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/1748-pg640-part72/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t4:1
# text = Wait, what was the brothers' vibe riding ahead?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	vibe	vibe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the brothers's vibe riding |  |  |  | ahead *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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thinking up fancy lines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t4:o1:1
# text = thinking up fancy lines
1	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think up** *speech: other* | gerund |  | fancy lines |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot line=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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planning which horse to steal from the palace yard before dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t4:o2:1
# text = planning which horse to steal from the palace yard before dark
1	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | gerund |  | which horse |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
| 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | dark |  | from the palace yard | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before dark=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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arguing about the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t4:o3:1
# text = arguing about the road
1	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the road | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about road=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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quarrelling over who gets the Princess first on the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1748-pg640-part72:t4:o4:1
# text = quarrelling over who gets the Princess first on the road
1	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present |  | the Princess |  | the road |  | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on road=Source |

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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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