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title: Was the mill fancy or what? — Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the mill fancy or what? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 856 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Babette is away and climbs the mountains after her» 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 was
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Bab…

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Was the mill fancy or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mill fancy

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 856 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Babette is away and climbs the mountains after her» 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/856-pg27200-part67/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:856-pg27200-part67:t3:1
# text = Was the mill fancy or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	csubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the mill fancy |  |  |  |  | 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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It was plain and small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:856-pg27200-part67:t3:o1:1
# text = It was plain and small
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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It had turrets and tin roof plates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:856-pg27200-part67:t3:o2:1
# text = It had turrets and tin roof plates
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	turrets	turret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | It | turrets and roof plates |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turret=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It had a small garden and a fence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:856-pg27200-part67:t3:o3:1
# text = It had a small garden and a fence
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | It | a small garden and a fence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It was painted white with green doors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:856-pg27200-part67:t3:o4:1
# text = It was painted white with green doors
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past · passive |  | It |  |  |  | with green doors; white *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with door=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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