--- title: the toad's son, what did he say? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: the toad's son, what did he say? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/882-pg27200-part93/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/882-pg27200-part93/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes… the toad's son, what did he say? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** toad · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** son · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» 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/882-pg27200-part93/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t10:1 # text = the toad's son, what did he say? 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | toad | the toad's son | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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} Croak, croak, croak, loudly from the marsh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t10:o1:1 # text = Croak, croak, croak, loudly from the marsh 1 Croak croak NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 croak croak NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 croak croak NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 marsh marsh NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Croak, croak, croak, then he hopped away ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t10:o2:1 # text = Croak, croak, croak, then he hopped away 1 Croak croak NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 croak croak NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 croak croak NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hopped hop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hop away** | past | Croak and croak and croak | | | | then | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Croak, croak, croak ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t10:o3:1 # text = Croak, croak, croak 1 Croak croak NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 croak croak NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 croak croak NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Chirp, chirp, chirp ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t10:o4:1 # text = Chirp, chirp, chirp 1 Chirp chirp NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 chirp chirp NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 chirp chirp NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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