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title: No lie, what was hanging off the branches? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree,… · tree and pragmatics
description: No lie, what was hanging off the branches? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir…

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No lie, what was hanging off the branches?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lie · **What happens:** hang off · **To what, where:** branches

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 825 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 1: a little fir-tree longs to be tall, is cut down, and is dressed for Christmas» 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/825-pg27200-part36/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t8:1
# text = No lie, what was hanging off the branches?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang off** | past · progressive | no lie | the branches |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |

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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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Little bags of sweets and small wooden toys for the children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t8:o1:1
# text = Little bags of sweets and small wooden toys for the children
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Little bags of sweets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t8:o2:1
# text = Little bags of sweets
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tiny paper boxes of nuts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t8:o3:1
# text = Tiny paper boxes of nuts
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dozens of tiny little bags of sweets tied with silver thread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:825-pg27200-part36:t8:o4:1
# text = Dozens of tiny little bags of sweets tied with silver thread
1	Dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | participle |  | sweets *not said here* |  |  |  | with silver thread | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with thread=Co-Patient |

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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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