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title: wait, what was the thing that ghosted Babette in her dream? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what was the thing that ghosted Babette in her dream? Test 4 · ★ 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 questi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 74: Rudy and…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wait, what was the thing that ghosted Babette in her dream?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, thing, Babette · **What happens:** wait, be, ghost, dream · **To what, where:** thing, Babette, dream

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t4:1
# text = wait, what was the thing that ghosted Babette in her dream?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ghosted	ghost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ghost** | past | the thing | Babette |  | Babette's dream |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location babette=Theme |
| 4 | **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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Babette's godmother, in a hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t4:o1:1
# text = Babette's godmother, in a hat
1	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rudy, who was really just his hunting coat and hat hanging on the alpenstock

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t4:o2:1
# text = Rudy, who was really just his hunting coat and hat hanging on the alpenstock
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	alpenstock	alpenstock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Rudy | Rudy's hunting coat and hat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | hat *not said here* |  |  | the alpenstock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on alpenstock=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rudy, who turned out to be nothing but his coat and hat and a stick, all along

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t4:o3:1
# text = Rudy, who turned out to be nothing but his coat and hat and a stick, all along
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	xcomp	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn out** | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Rudy, who was just his coat and hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:863-pg27200-part74:t4:o4:1
# text = Rudy, who was just his coat and hat
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Rudy | Rudy's coat and hat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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