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title: so which sis was getting confirmed, the big one or the lil one? — Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: so which sis was getting confirmed, the big one or the lil one? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

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so which sis was getting confirmed, the big one or the lil one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** confirm · **To what, where:** sis

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» 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/809-pg27200-part20/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t3:1
# text = so which sis was getting confirmed, the big one or the lil one?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	getting	get	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lil	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | past · passive |  | which sis |  |  |  |  | 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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the middle one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t3:o1:1
# text = the middle one
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the big one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t3:o2:1
# text = the big one
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	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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the little one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t3:o3:1
# text = the little one
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the younger one, the lil sis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t3:o4:1
# text = the younger one, the lil sis
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lil	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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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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