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title: vibe check, what's the miller's big joke? — Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: vibe check, what's the miller's big joke? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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 wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

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vibe check, what's the miller's big joke?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** vibe check · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big joke

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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/859-pg27200-part70/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t12:1
# text = vibe check, what's the miller's big joke?
1	vibe	vibe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | vibe check | the miller's big joke |  |  |  |  | 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 thinks it's a fine joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t12:o1:1
# text = he thinks it's a fine joke
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | a fine joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he mocks the boy's wild plan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t12:o2:1
# text = he mocks the boy's wild plan
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mocks	mock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mock** | present | he | the boy's wild plan |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme |
| 2 | **plan** |  | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he gets angry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t12:o3:1
# text = he gets angry
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | he |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he laughs at rudy's eaglet plan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t12:o4:1
# text = he laughs at rudy's eaglet plan
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	rudy	rudy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	eaglet	eaglet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | present | he |  |  | rudy's eaglet plan |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **plan** |  | rudy |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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