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title: bro, what did vertigo blow in rudy's face? — Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what did vertigo blow in rudy's face? Test 6 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

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bro, what did vertigo blow in rudy's face?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** blow

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t6:1
# text = bro, what did vertigo blow in rudy's face?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	vertigo	vertigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	rudy	rudy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | in rudy's face; bro *vocative* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Patient in face=Topic |

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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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a stinking green poisonous vapor from his mouth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t6:o1:1
# text = a stinking green poisonous vapor from his mouth
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	stinking	stink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	nsubj	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
burning sparks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t6:o2:1
# text = burning sparks
1	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a thick cloud of poisonous vapor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t6:o3:1
# text = a thick cloud of poisonous vapor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cloud** |  |  | poisonous vapor |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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poisonous vapor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t6:o4:1
# text = poisonous vapor
1	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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