--- title: What's the deal with the stars in the golden land, mate? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicia… · tree and pragmatics description: What's the deal with the stars in the golden land, mate? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1939-pg7277-part76/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicia…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1939-pg7277-part76/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu… What's the deal with the stars in the golden land, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** deal · **What happens:** be This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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/1939-pg7277-part76/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t9:1 # text = What's the deal with the stars in the golden land, mate? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the deal with the stars | | | | | | tree rules | 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} They looked half as small ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t9:o1:1 # text = They looked half as small 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 2 advmod _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | They | | | | | as small; half *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 2 {#o2} They were bright ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t9:o2:1 # text = They were bright 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | They | | | | | bright *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} They looked twice as big ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t9:o3:1 # text = They looked twice as big 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 advmod _ _ 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | They | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 4 {#o4} Very shiny ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t9:o4:1 # text = Very shiny 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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