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title: Deadass, how high did the fountain shoot up? — Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deadass, how high did the fountain shoot up? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 231 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brothers are freed and meet the Sultan» 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 9 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…

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Deadass, how high did the fountain shoot up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fountain · **What happens:** shoot up

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 231 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brothers are freed and meet the Sultan» 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/231-pg128-part71/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t9:1
# text = Deadass, how high did the fountain shoot up?
1	Deadass	Deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot up** | past · do-support | the fountain |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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twenty feet high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t9:o1:1
# text = twenty feet high
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
twenty feet high above the palace roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t9:o2:1
# text = twenty feet high above the palace roof
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
forty feet tall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t9:o3:1
# text = forty feet tall
1	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a hundred feet high over the basin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t9:o4:1
# text = a hundred feet high over the basin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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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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