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title: Bro, which lion is the top one meant to be? — Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, which lion is the top one meant to be? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 848 «Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his wooden Holger and tells of the Danish arms, while Holger dreams on» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his w…

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Bro, which lion is the top one meant to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** top one

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 848 «Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his wooden Holger and tells of the Danish arms, while Holger dreams on» 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/848-pg27200-part59/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t2:1
# text = Bro, which lion is the top one meant to be?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bro and which lion | the top one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | participle |  | the top one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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King Christian

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t2:o1:1
# text = King Christian
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	_	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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King Canute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t2:o2:1
# text = King Canute
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Canute	Canute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Harald

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t2:o3:1
# text = Harald
1	Harald	Harald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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King Valdemar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t2:o4:1
# text = King Valdemar
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Valdemar	Valdemar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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