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title: Bruv, what was the angel holding? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what was the angel holding? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

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Bruv, what was the angel holding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bruv · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** angel

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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/309-pg1597-part36/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t10:1
# text = Bruv, what was the angel holding?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bruv | the angel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | Bruv |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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a sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t10:o1:1
# text = a sword
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a golden lily flower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t10:o2:1
# text = a golden lily flower
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	flower	flower	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 -->
a lantern

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t10:o3:1
# text = a lantern
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lantern	lantern	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 rod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t10:o4:1
# text = a rod
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rod	rod	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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