--- title: did the earwig mums think their kids were ugly? no way, what did the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who… · tree and pragmatics description: did the earwig mums think their kids were ugly? no way, what did they think? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 798 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels: a vain beetle wants golden shoes and finds only mud» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/798-pg27200-part9/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/798-pg27200-part9/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels… did the earwig mums think their kids were ugly? no way, what did they think? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** earwig mums, kids · **What happens:** think, be · **To what, where:** way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 798 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels: a vain beetle wants golden shoes and finds only mud» 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/798-pg27200-part9/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t8:1 # text = did the earwig mums think their kids were ugly? no way, what did they think? 1 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 earwig earwig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 mums mum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the earwig mums | no way | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | mums's kids | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | kids *= kid* | no way | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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} The most beautiful and clever ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t8:o1:1 # text = The most beautiful and clever 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Pretty ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t8:o2:1 # text = Pretty 1 Pretty pretty ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The kindest of all the insects ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t8:o3:1 # text = The kindest of all the insects 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kindest kind ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Very clever ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t8:o4:1 # text = Very clever 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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