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title: Ida's flowers were dancing in the middle of the night, bruv, what di… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ida's flowers were dancing in the middle of the night, bruv, what did the yellow lily do? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 874 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the flowers dance at night while Sophy the doll gives up her bed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the…

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Ida's flowers were dancing in the middle of the night, bruv, what did the yellow lily do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** flowers, yellow lily · **What happens:** dance, do · **To what, where:** middle, bruv

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 874 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the flowers dance at night while Sophy the doll gives up her bed» 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/874-pg27200-part85/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t1:1
# text = Ida's flowers were dancing in the middle of the night, bruv, what did the yellow lily do?
1	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lily	lily	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past · progressive | Ida's flowers |  |  | the middle of the night |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past · do-support | the yellow lily | bruv |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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sat by the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t1:o1:1
# text = sat by the window
1	sat	sat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sat** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the window | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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danced with Sophy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t1:o2:1
# text = danced with Sophy
1	danced	dance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with Sophy | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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played the piano

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t1:o3:1
# text = played the piano
1	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past |  | the piano |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piano=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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played the piano for everyone in the room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t1:o4:1
# text = played the piano for everyone in the room
1	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past |  | the piano |  | the room |  | for everyone | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent piano=Theme for everyone=Eventuality |

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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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