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title: Seriously, what did she strike off the wall first? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seriously, what did she strike off the wall first? Test 8 · ★ 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 choice w
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…

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Seriously, what did she strike off the wall first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** strike off · **To what, where:** wall

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t8:1
# text = Seriously, what did she strike off the wall first?
1	Seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike off** | past · do-support | she | the wall |  |  |  | first, seriously *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient wall=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 {#o1}

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one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t8:o1:1
# text = one
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a candle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t8:o2:1
# text = a candle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a match

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t8:o3:1
# text = a match
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	match	match	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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a lamp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t8:o4:1
# text = a lamp
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	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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