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title: deadass, what was rudy standin' on up there? — Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: deadass, what was rudy standin' on up there? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

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deadass, what was rudy standin' on up there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** deadass · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** rudy standin

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t9:1
# text = deadass, what was rudy standin' on up there?
1	deadass	deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	rudy	rudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	standin	standin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	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** | past | deadass | rudy standin |  |  |  |  | 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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the cliff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t9:o1:1
# text = the cliff
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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swaying ladders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t9:o2:1
# text = swaying ladders
1	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sway** | gerund |  | ladders |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ladder=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a frozen tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t9:o3:1
# text = a frozen tree
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the swaying ladders over the empty abyss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:t9:o4:1
# text = the swaying ladders over the empty abyss
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	swaying	sway	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sway** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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