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title: who was chilling on the grass blade, lol? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's L… · tree and pragmatics
description: who was chilling on the grass blade, lol? Test 5 · ★ 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 tree and pra
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

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who was chilling on the grass blade, lol?

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

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t5:1
# text = who was chilling on the grass blade, lol?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chill** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the grass blade |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 dragonfly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t5:o1:1
# text = a dragonfly
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dragonfly	dragonfly	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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a tiny beetle polishing its shiny wings in the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t5:o2:1
# text = a tiny beetle polishing its shiny wings in the sun
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	polishing	polish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **polish** | gerund | a tiny beetle *not said here* | beetle's shiny wings |  | the sun |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Destination |

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

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a grasshopper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t5:o3:1
# text = a grasshopper
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a ladybird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:867-pg27200-part78:t5:o4:1
# text = a ladybird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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