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title: lowkey sad, what did the lark need most? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Ne… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey sad, what did the lark need most? Test 3 · ★ 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 choice was wrong
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

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lowkey sad, what did the lark need most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lowkey · **What happens:** do, need · **To what, where:** lark

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t3:1
# text = lowkey sad, what did the lark need most?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | lowkey | the lark |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lark=Eventuality |
| 2 | **need** | present | lowkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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a bigger cage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t3:o1:1
# text = a bigger cage
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	cage	cage	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}

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a drink of water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t3:o2:1
# text = a drink of water
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a cool drink of fresh water from the well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t3:o3:1
# text = a cool drink of fresh water from the well
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bigger cage with some room to fly around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t3:o4:1
# text = a bigger cage with some room to fly around
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
9	around	around	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly around** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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