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title: Was the Dryad, like, scared or chill about dying? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dulla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the Dryad, like, scared or chill about dying? Test 5 · ★ 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 dependency tre
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

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Was the Dryad, like, scared or chill about dying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, die · **To what, where:** Dryad

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t5:1
# text = Was the Dryad, like, scared or chill about dying?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	appos	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	chill	chill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Dryad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 {#o1}

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she was chill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t5:o1:1
# text = she was chill
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	chill	chill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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she was quite relaxed and accepted it gladly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t5:o2:1
# text = she was quite relaxed and accepted it gladly
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | relaxed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accept** | past | she *not said here* | it |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t5:o3:1
# text = scared
1	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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she felt terror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:819-pg27200-part30:t5:o4:1
# text = she felt terror
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | she | terror |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent terror=Theme |

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