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title: Did that big stone like, just fall off by itself? — Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maide… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did that big stone like, just fall off by itself? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

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Did that big stone like, just fall off by itself?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big stone · **What happens:** do, fall off · **To what, where:** big stone

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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/854-pg27200-part65/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t4:1
# text = Did that big stone like, just fall off by itself?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | that big stone |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fall off** | infinitive | that big stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by stone | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Yeah, it rolled into the abyss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t4:o1:1
# text = Yeah, it rolled into the abyss
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | it |  |  | the abyss |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into abyss=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yeah, it slid down the slope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t4:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it slid down the slope
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide down** | past | it | the slope |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location slope=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, it rolled off the peak and crashed into the abyss below

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it rolled off the peak and crashed into the abyss below
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	below	below	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll off** | past | it | the peak |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location peak=Theme |
| 2 | **crash** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into the abyss *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into abyss=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, it came off the peak and tumbled down the slope into the empty abyss

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t4:o4:1
# text = Yeah, it came off the peak and tumbled down the slope into the empty abyss
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come off** | past | it | the peak |  | the empty abyss |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tumble down** | participle | the peak *not said here* | the slope |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slope=Theme |

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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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