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title: bruh, what did the mice want to hear about? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree,… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, what did the mice want to hear about? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, part 37: the tree is…

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bruh, what did the mice want to hear about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mice · **What happens:** do, want, hear

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t5:1
# text = bruh, what did the mice want to hear about?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** | present | the mice |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the storeroom with cheese and hams

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t5:o1:1
# text = the storeroom with cheese and hams
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storeroom	storeroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hams	ham	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the dark pantry full of bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t5:o2:1
# text = the dark pantry full of bread
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pantry	pantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the kitchen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t5:o3:1
# text = the kitchen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the cellar with jars of jam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:826-pg27200-part37:t5:o4:1
# text = the cellar with jars of jam
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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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