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title: What was the elf whispering about at the end? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the elf whispering about at the end? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

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What was the elf whispering about at the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elf · **What happens:** be, whisper · **To what, where:** end

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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/821-pg27200-part32/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t13:1
# text = What was the elf whispering about at the end?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the elf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | the elf *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end | about *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |

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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 murder in the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t13:o1:1
# text = the murder in the garden
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t13:o2:1
# text = the knife
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knife	knife	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 lady

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t13:o3:1
# text = the lady
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the evening in the arbor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t13:o4:1
# text = the evening in the arbor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	arbor	arbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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