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title: Proper random, which way did the thorn-bush point? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper random, which way did the thorn-bush point? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

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Proper random, which way did the thorn-bush point?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Proper random · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** bush point

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t5:1
# text = Proper random, which way did the thorn-bush point?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	random	random	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Proper random | the bush point |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Eventuality |

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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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the woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t5:o1:1
# text = the woods
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the cold stone bridge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t5:o2:1
# text = the cold stone bridge
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t5:o3:1
# text = the lake
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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the dark pine forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t5:o4:1
# text = the dark pine forest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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