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title: bruh, why was the daisy sighing "Ugh" at the start? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Ne… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, why was the daisy sighing "Ugh" at the start? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

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bruh, why was the daisy sighing "Ugh" at the start?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** daisy · **What happens:** be, sigh · **To what, where:** Ugh, start

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» 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/812-pg27200-part23/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t1:1
# text = bruh, why was the daisy sighing "Ugh" at the start?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Ugh	ugh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the daisy |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sigh** | gerund | the daisy *not said here* | Ugh |  | the start |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ugh=Topic |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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cause the girl was chopping the tulips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t1:o1:1
# text = cause the girl was chopping the tulips
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chopping	chop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chop** | past · progressive | the girl | the tulips |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tulip=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bc the boys were digging up the whole garden bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t1:o2:1
# text = bc the boys were digging up the whole garden bed
1	bc	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | past · progressive | the bc boys | the whole garden bed |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the boys were near the tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t1:o3:1
# text = the boys were near the tree
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the boys |  |  | the tree |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause the girl was chopping the tulips and the lark sang loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t1:o4:1
# text = cause the girl was chopping the tulips and the lark sang loud
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chopping	chop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chop** | past · progressive | the girl | the tulips |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tulip=Patient |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the lark |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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