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title: Bare cringe, what do humans call their legs? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare cringe, what do humans call their legs? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 878 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the mermaid watches the prince's palace and dreams of a soul» 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 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

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Bare cringe, what do humans call their legs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** humans · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Bare cringe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 878 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the mermaid watches the prince's palace and dreams of a soul» 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/878-pg27200-part89/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t12:1
# text = Bare cringe, what do humans call their legs?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cringe	cringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · do-support | humans | Bare cringe |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme leg=Result |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two long stilts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t12:o1:1
# text = two long stilts
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stilts	stilt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two stout props

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t12:o2:1
# text = two stout props
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	props	prop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two stout props that they walk on every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t12:o3:1
# text = two stout props that they walk on every day
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	props	prop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | two stout props |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two rather strange wooden props that wobble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:878-pg27200-part89:t12:o4:1
# text = two rather strange wooden props that wobble
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	props	prop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wobble	wobble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wobble** | present | two strange wooden props |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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