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title: Mate, who's the sad mum sitting by the poorly kid? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, who's the sad mum sitting by the poorly kid? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

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Mate, who's the sad mum sitting by the poorly kid?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate, sad mum · **What happens:** be, sit · **To what, where:** sad mum

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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/301-pg1597-part28/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t1:1
# text = Mate, who's the sad mum sitting by the poorly kid?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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** | present | Mate and the sad mum | the sad mum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | the sad mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the kid | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by kid=Location |

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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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the mum with the ill kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t1:o1:1
# text = the mum with the ill kid
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sad mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t1:o2:1
# text = a sad mum
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the poorly kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t1:o3:1
# text = the poorly kid
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the dad with the sick son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t1:o4:1
# text = the dad with the sick son
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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