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title: what's an immortelle anyway, sounds fancy — fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldi… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's an immortelle anyway, sounds fancy Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1900 «fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldier, part 37: John buys a golden coach, plays cards with the King, and loses his purse and cloak to Ludovine» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 10 · ★ · fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldier, part 37: John bu…

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what's an immortelle anyway, sounds fancy

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** immortelle · **What happens:** be, sound · **To what, where:** immortelle, fancy

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1900 «fairy tales (pg7277), The Little Soldier, part 37: John buys a golden coach, plays cards with the King, and loses his purse and cloak to Ludovine» 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/1900-pg7277-part37/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1900-pg7277-part37:t10:1
# text = what's an immortelle anyway, sounds fancy
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	immortelle	immortelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a immortelle |  |  |  | anyway *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | present | a immortelle *not said here* | fancy |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fancy=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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A type of silk ribbon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1900-pg7277-part37:t10:o1:1
# text = A type of silk ribbon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **type** |  |  | silk ribbon |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A rare green herb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1900-pg7277-part37:t10:o2:1
# text = A rare green herb
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A small golden bird that sings in the palace gardens every spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1900-pg7277-part37:t10:o3:1
# text = A small golden bird that sings in the palace gardens every spring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | a small golden bird |  |  | the palace gardens | spring |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A flower that lasts forever, like a dried one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1900-pg7277-part37:t10:o4:1
# text = A flower that lasts forever, like a dried one
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | a flower and a dried one |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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