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title: Proper gutted, what did her nan tell her about falling stars? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper gutted, what did her nan tell her about falling stars? Test 4 · ★ 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
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…

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Proper gutted, what did her nan tell her about falling stars?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nan · **What happens:** gut, do, tell, fall · **To what, where:** her, stars · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t4:1
# text = Proper gutted, what did her nan tell her about falling stars?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | her nan |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund | her nan *not said here* | stars |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient star=Result |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a soul goes to God

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t4:o1:1
# text = a soul goes to God
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | a soul |  | God |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to god=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a sign that her dad would come home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t4:o2:1
# text = a sign that her dad would come home
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | her dad | a sign *not said here* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sign=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a wish made by people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t4:o3:1
# text = a wish made by people
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | a wish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a bad omen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t4:o4:1
# text = a bad omen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	omen	omen	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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