--- title: lowkey, what did the buckwheat call the willow? — Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a pro… · tree and pragmatics description: lowkey, what did the buckwheat call the willow? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 807 «Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies the storm and is burnt black» 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 wa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/807-pg27200-part18/t4/) [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 Tales, The Buckwheat: a pro…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/807-pg27200-part18/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies… lowkey, what did the buckwheat call the willow? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** buckwheat · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** willow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 807 «Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies the storm and is burnt black» 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/807-pg27200-part18/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:t4:1 # text = lowkey, what did the buckwheat call the willow? 1 lowkey lowkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 buckwheat buckwheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past · do-support | the buckwheat | the willow | | | | lowkey *vocative* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme willow=Result | 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} He called it a stupid tree that weeps all day long ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:t4:o1:1 # text = He called it a stupid tree that weeps all day long 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 weeps weep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | He | it | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 2 | **weep** | present | a stupid tree | | | | day | long *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Stupid tree ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:t4:o2:1 # text = Stupid tree 1 Stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Dumb stump ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:t4:o3:1 # text = Dumb stump 1 Dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 stump stump NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Silly weed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:t4:o4:1 # text = Silly weed 1 Silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 weed weed NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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