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title: Seriously, why'd their faces go all black like that? — Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seriously, why'd their faces go all black like that? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost i…

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Seriously, why'd their faces go all black like that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** faces · **What happens:** go

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» 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/849-pg27200-part60/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t4:1
# text = Seriously, why'd their faces go all black like that?
1	Seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | their faces |  |  |  |  | black, seriously *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 {#o1}

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from drinking the lake water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t4:o1:1
# text = from drinking the lake water
1	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  | the lake water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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from eating loads of blackberries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t4:o2:1
# text = from eating loads of blackberries
1	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | loads of blackberries |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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from rolling in the mud by the stream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t4:o3:1
# text = from rolling in the mud by the stream
1	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  | the mud |  | by the stream | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mud=Source by stream=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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from the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t4:o4:1
# text = from the fire
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	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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