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title: Be honest, what's Hans's face like, all proper chirpy? — The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, what's Hans's face like, all proper chirpy? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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 wa
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# Test 4 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…

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Be honest, what's Hans's face like, all proper chirpy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** all · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** face

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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/2036-pg902-part6/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t4:1
# text = Be honest, what's Hans's face like, all proper chirpy?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	chirpy	chirpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | Hans's face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | all |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Serious, sharp and rather grim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t4:o1:1
# text = Serious, sharp and rather grim
1	Serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Stern, angular and always frowning at the children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t4:o2:1
# text = Stern, angular and always frowning at the children
1	Stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	angular	angular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	frowning	frown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frown** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the children; always *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Funny, round and good-humoured

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t4:o3:1
# text = Funny, round and good-humoured
1	Funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	humoured	humour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **humour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pale and thin, with sunken eyes and a worried brow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t4:o4:1
# text = Pale and thin, with sunken eyes and a worried brow
1	Pale	pale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	sunken	sunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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