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title: What got stuck to the measure when it came back? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus a… · tree and pragmatics
description: What got stuck to the measure when it came back? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

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What got stuck to the measure when it came back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** measure · **What happens:** come back

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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/869-pg27200-part80/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t9:1
# text = What got stuck to the measure when it came back?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | measure |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Four bright golden crowns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t9:o1:1
# text = Four bright golden crowns
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Three shiny silver florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t9:o2:1
# text = Three shiny silver florins
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	florins	florin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Three shiny silver florins from the sexton's money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t9:o3:1
# text = Three shiny silver florins from the sexton's money
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	florins	florin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sexton	sexton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three dull copper pennies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t9:o4:1
# text = Three dull copper pennies
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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