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title: Mate, what did the little girl actually flog on the street? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the little girl actually flog on the street? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…

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Mate, what did the little girl actually flog on the street?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** flog · **To what, where:** Mate, street

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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/306-pg1597-part33/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t1:1
# text = Mate, what did the little girl actually flog on the street?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	flog	flog	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flog** | past · do-support |  | Mate |  | the street |  | actually *property* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Patient on street=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 {#o1}

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knitted scarves and hats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t1:o1:1
# text = knitted scarves and hats
1	knitted	knit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	scarves	scarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knit** | past |  | scarves and hats |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarf=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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hot chestnuts from a cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t1:o2:1
# text = hot chestnuts from a cart
1	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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figs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t1:o3:1
# text = figs
1	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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matches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t1:o4:1
# text = matches
1	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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