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title: so who was the mystery guy in Babette's dream, lowkey? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: so who was the mystery guy in Babette's dream, lowkey? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 863 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and Babette near their wedding, then their boat drifts away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…

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so who was the mystery guy in Babette's dream, lowkey?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Babette · **What happens:** be, dream · **To what, where:** mystery guy, dream

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 863 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and Babette near their wedding, then their boat drifts away» 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/863-pg27200-part74/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t3:1
# text = so who was the mystery guy in Babette's dream, lowkey?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 mystery guy |  | Babette's dream |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dream** |  | Babette |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Frenchman with the grey beard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t3:o1:1
# text = The Frenchman with the grey beard
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The tall man with the silver hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t3:o2:1
# text = The tall man with the silver hat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The Englishman with the golden whiskers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t3:o3:1
# text = The Englishman with the golden whiskers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Englishman with the golden whiskers, who was staying at the inn with his friends

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t3:o4:1
# text = The Englishman with the golden whiskers, who was staying at the inn with his friends
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · progressive | the Englishman with the golden whiskers |  |  | the inn |  | with his friends | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location |

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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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