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title: test: what's Vertigo's whole deal? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: what's Vertigo's whole deal? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

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test: what's Vertigo's whole deal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** test · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** whole deal

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» 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/853-pg27200-part64/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t10:1
# text = test: what's Vertigo's whole deal?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	Vertigo	Vertigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | test and Vertigo's whole deal | Vertigo's whole deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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he makes everybody dizzy and then they fall down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t10:o1:1
# text = he makes everybody dizzy and then they fall down
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | he | everybody |  |  |  | dizzy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Product |
| 2 | **fall down** | present | they |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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making people sleep a lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t10:o2:1
# text = making people sleep a lot
1	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | making people | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |

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

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making people dizzy and fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t10:o3:1
# text = making people dizzy and fall
1	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | people |  |  |  | dizzy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
making people dizzy so they fall off cliffs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t10:o4:1
# text = making people dizzy so they fall off cliffs
1	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  | people |  |  |  | dizzy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
| 2 | **fall off** | present | people | cliffs |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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