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title: what was shining over the baby, like a proper net? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's L… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was shining over the baby, like a proper net? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

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what was shining over the baby, like a proper net?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** shine · **To what, where:** baby

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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/867-pg27200-part78/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t11:1
# text = what was shining over the baby, like a proper net?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the baby |  | like a proper net | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over baby=Location |

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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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a star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t11:o1:1
# text = a star
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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moonlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t11:o2:1
# text = moonlight
1	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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a net of shining stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t11:o3:1
# text = a net of shining stars
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund | a net *not said here* | stars |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a cloud of golden dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t11:o4:1
# text = a cloud of golden dust
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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