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title: what did he think of the ending, be honest? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did he think of the ending, be honest? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…

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what did he think of the ending, be honest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** think, be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» 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/280-pg1597-part7/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t12:1
# text = what did he think of the ending, be honest?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  | of the ending | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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honestly kinda meh, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t12:o1:1
# text = honestly kinda meh, bro
1	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	meh	meh	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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kinda lame but whatever, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t12:o2:1
# text = kinda lame but whatever, bro
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lame	lame	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lame** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative*; kinda *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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totally insignificant and way too long, bro, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t12:o3:1
# text = totally insignificant and way too long, bro, no cap
1	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	insignificant	insignificant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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totally insignificant, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t12:o4:1
# text = totally insignificant, bro
1	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	insignificant	insignificant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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