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title: Dead serious, what did the Wind say was gonna happen to her? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dulla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead serious, what did the Wind say was gonna happen to her? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dep
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

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Dead serious, what did the Wind say was gonna happen to her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Wind · **What happens:** do, say, happen · **To what, where:** Wind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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/819-pg27200-part30/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t4:1
# text = Dead serious, what did the Wind say was gonna happen to her?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	csubj	_	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	2	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	dep	_	_
11	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **happen** | past |  |  | Wind |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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she'd end up dead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t4:o1:1
# text = she'd end up dead
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end up** | would | she |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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she'd be a ghost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t4:o2:1
# text = she'd be a ghost
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ghost	ghost	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 a** | would | she | a ghost |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she'd end up dead in the church yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t4:o3:1
# text = she'd end up dead in the church yard
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end up** | would | she |  |  |  |  | in the church yard *result*; dead *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in yard=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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that she would wither and die before the sun set on the hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t4:o4:1
# text = that she would wither and die before the sun set on the hill
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wither	wither	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wither** | would | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  | before the sun |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **set** | participle |  | the sun *not said here* |  | the hill |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on hill=Destination |

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