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title: Nan says famine means what, like, in proper words? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nan says famine means what, like, in proper words? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…

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Nan says famine means what, like, in proper words?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Nan, famine · **What happens:** say, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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/775-pg2591-part51/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t8:1
# text = Nan says famine means what, like, in proper words?
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	famine	famine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Nan |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | famine |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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Being really hungry, like when there is no food at all in the land

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t8:o1:1
# text = Being really hungry, like when there is no food at all in the land
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | all |  | like no food | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Being really hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t8:o2:1
# text = Being really hungry
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Being really thirsty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t8:o3:1
# text = Being really thirsty
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thirsty *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Being really hungry for a very long time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t8:o4:1
# text = Being really hungry for a very long time
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time | hungry *property* | tree rules |

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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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