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title: was the sun just sat there all big and shiny? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep:… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the sun just sat there all big and shiny? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…

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was the sun just sat there all big and shiny?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» 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/801-pg27200-part12/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t4:1
# text = was the sun just sat there all big and shiny?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sun |  |  | there |  | big, sit *property* | 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 {#o1}

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nah like a fiery bright ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t4:o1:1
# text = nah like a fiery bright ball
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ball	ball	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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yeah like a big gold coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t4:o2:1
# text = yeah like a big gold coin
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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nah just a lamp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t4:o3:1
# text = nah just a lamp
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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yeah like a massive bright altar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:801-pg27200-part12:t4:o4:1
# text = yeah like a massive bright altar
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	altar	altar	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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