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title: what was the eldest's fave view, them town lights? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the eldest's fave view, them town lights? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

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what was the eldest's fave view, them town lights?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** eldest fave view, view · **What happens:** be, light

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» 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/876-pg27200-part87/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t13:1
# text = what was the eldest's fave view, them town lights?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	fave	fave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the eldest fave view and town lights |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **light** |  | view |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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many fine lamps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t13:o1:1
# text = many fine lamps
1	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lamps	lamp	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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lights like hundreds of stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t13:o2:1
# text = lights like hundreds of stars
1	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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smoke and rising mist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t13:o3:1
# text = smoke and rising mist
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	_
4	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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candles in the windows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t13:o4:1
# text = candles in the windows
1	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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