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title: Why was the swan struggling with him? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why was the swan struggling with him? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 255 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: Jack sneaks past the sleeping monsters, steals the apples, and heads home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: J…

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Why was the swan struggling with him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** swan · **What happens:** be, struggle

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 255 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: Jack sneaks past the sleeping monsters, steals the apples, and heads home» 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/255-pg14241-part22/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t7:1
# text = Why was the swan struggling with him?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the swan |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **struggle** | gerund | the swan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with him *= he* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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He had the apples in his wallet, dead heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t7:o1:1
# text = He had the apples in his wallet, dead heavy
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | He | the apples |  | his wallet |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Too heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t7:o2:1
# text = Too heavy
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He was too heavy from the long fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t7:o3:1
# text = He was too heavy from the long fall
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  | the long fall |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Apples too heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t7:o4:1
# text = Apples too heavy
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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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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