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title: bro, what's the cornfield like now? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what's the cornfield like now? Test 12 · ★ 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 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…

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bro, what's the cornfield like now?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cornfield

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t12:1
# text = bro, what's the cornfield like now?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | bro | the cornfield |  |  |  |  | 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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Dry soil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t12:o1:1
# text = Dry soil
1	Dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Bare dry stubble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t12:o2:1
# text = Bare dry stubble
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stubble	stubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brown grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t12:o3:1
# text = Brown grass
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Golden ripe wheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t12:o4:1
# text = Golden ripe wheat
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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