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title: Mate, what does melancholy mean in the story? — Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what does melancholy mean in the story? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t…

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Mate, what does melancholy mean in the story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** melancholy · **What happens:** mean

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» 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/866-pg27200-part77/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t13:1
# text = Mate, what does melancholy mean in the story?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | melancholy |  |  |  |  | in the story | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in story=Attribute |

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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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tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t13:o1:1
# text = tired
1	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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bored

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t13:o2:1
# text = bored
1	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t13:o3:1
# text = sad
1	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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very quietly unhappy and thoughtful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t13:o4:1
# text = very quietly unhappy and thoughtful
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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