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title: What are the cretins like, though, proper weird? — Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maide… · tree and pragmatics
description: What are the cretins like, though, proper weird? Test 8 · ★ 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 opt
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

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What are the cretins like, though, proper weird?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cretins · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t8:1
# text = What are the cretins like, though, proper weird?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cretins	cretin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	though	though	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the cretins |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Quiet folk with big smiles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t8:o1:1
# text = Quiet folk with big smiles
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	smiles	smile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Yellow faces and lumpy necks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t8:o2:1
# text = Yellow faces and lumpy necks
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	lumpy	lumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They have yellow faces and lumpy necks and they stare at strangers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t8:o3:1
# text = They have yellow faces and lumpy necks and they stare at strangers
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	lumpy	lumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stare	stare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | They | yellow faces and lumpy necks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 2 | **stare** | present | faces *= face* |  |  |  |  | at strangers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stranger=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pretty normal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t8:o4:1
# text = Pretty normal
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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