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title: Which stars did Rudy spot? — Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which stars did Rudy spot? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

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Which stars did Rudy spot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stars · **What happens:** spot

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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/858-pg27200-part69/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:t10:1
# text = Which stars did Rudy spot?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | past · do-support | which stars |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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two shiny ones, for him and the maiden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:t10:o1:1
# text = two shiny ones, for him and the maiden
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a huge crowd of tiny stars, like all the people Rudy had ever met in Interlaken and Bex

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:t10:o2:1
# text = a huge crowd of tiny stars, like all the people Rudy had ever met in Interlaken and Bex
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
12	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Interlaken	Interlaken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Bex	Bex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · perfect | a huge crowd of tiny stars like all people |  |  | Interlaken and Bex | ever |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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just one, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:t10:o3:1
# text = just one, lol
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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two bright ones, like him and Babette

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:858-pg27200-part69:t10:o4:1
# text = two bright ones, like him and Babette
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

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