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title: Mate, was Anne Lisbeth just ill or proper mad from the start? — Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the se… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, was Anne Lisbeth just ill or proper mad from the start? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 795 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back her soul» 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 was wro
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back…

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Mate, was Anne Lisbeth just ill or proper mad from the start?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Anne · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** start

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 795 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, the sea spectre gives back her soul» 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/795-pg27200-part6/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:795-pg27200-part6:t1:1
# text = Mate, was Anne Lisbeth just ill or proper mad from the start?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Anne |  |  |  |  | Mate *vocative*; ill *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Anne *not said here* |  |  | the start |  |  | tree rules |

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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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She was proper ill, sleeping on the beach every night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:795-pg27200-part6:t1:o1:1
# text = She was proper ill, sleeping on the beach every night
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | She |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | gerund | She *not said here* |  |  | the beach | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She was just ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:795-pg27200-part6:t1:o2:1
# text = She was just ill
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ill	ill	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** | past | She |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |

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

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She was in a fever, thinking she had half a soul

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:795-pg27200-part6:t1:o3:1
# text = She was in a fever, thinking she had half a soul
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | She |  |  | a fever |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | a fever *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | she | half soul |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She was just grieving her poor child at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:795-pg27200-part6:t1:o4:1
# text = She was just grieving her poor child at sea
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grieving	grieve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | past · progressive | She | her poor child |  | sea |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |

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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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