--- title: what're the elfin girls wearing for the dance? — Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfi… · tree and pragmatics description: what're the elfin girls wearing for the dance? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 822 «Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/822-pg27200-part33/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/822-pg27200-part33/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the… what're the elfin girls wearing for the dance? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elfin girls · **What happens:** be, wear This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 822 «Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast» 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/822-pg27200-part33/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:t10:1 # text = what're the elfin girls wearing for the dance? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 elfin elfin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nsubj _ _ 6 wearing wear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the elfin girls | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wear** | gerund | the elfin girls *not said here* | | | | | for the dance | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | 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} Silk, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:t10:o1:1 # text = Silk, bruv 1 Silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Shawls, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:t10:o2:1 # text = Shawls, mate 1 Shawls shawl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Shawls from moonshine and mist ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:t10:o3:1 # text = Shawls from moonshine and mist 1 Shawls shawl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 moonshine moonshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 mist mist NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Shawls from moonshine and mist, with silver ribbons and flowers in their hair, proper fancy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:822-pg27200-part33:t10:o4:1 # text = Shawls from moonshine and mist, with silver ribbons and flowers in their hair, proper fancy 1 Shawls shawl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 moonshine moonshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 mist mist NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 ribbons ribbon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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