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title: Ngl, what was the poor crow doing on the frozen ships? — Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what was the poor crow doing on the frozen ships? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

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Ngl, what was the poor crow doing on the frozen ships?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl, poor crow · **What happens:** be, do, freeze · **To what, where:** poor crow, frozen ships

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» 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/282-pg1597-part9/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t13:1
# text = Ngl, what was the poor crow doing on the frozen ships?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ngl | the poor crow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the poor crow *not said here* |  |  | the frozen ships |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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singing alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t13:o1:1
# text = singing alone
1	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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screaming with the gulls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t13:o2:1
# text = screaming with the gulls
1	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gulls	gull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the gulls | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gull=Theme |

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

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screaming on its own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t13:o3:1
# text = screaming on its own
1	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | its own |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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flying over the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t13:o4:1
# text = flying over the sea
1	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location |

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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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