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title: ngl, what story did the fat dude tell first? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree,… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what story did the fat dude tell first? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

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ngl, what story did the fat dude tell first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** story, ngl · **What happens:** do, tell · **To what, where:** fat dude · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 826 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is thrown out and its gold star is pulled off» 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/826-pg27200-part37/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t2:1
# text = ngl, what story did the fat dude tell first?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | story | the fat dude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | ngl |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Snow White

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t2:o1:1
# text = Snow White
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tom Thumb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t2:o2:1
# text = Tom Thumb
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Humpty Dumpty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t2:o3:1
# text = Humpty Dumpty
1	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The Frog Prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t2:o4:1
# text = The Frog Prince
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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