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title: why's the summer over so fast, the earth's all rock hard — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: why's the summer over so fast, the earth's all rock hard Test 11 · ★ of lesson 883 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a frozen swallow while the field-mouse plans her wedding to the mole» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a…

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why's the summer over so fast, the earth's all rock hard

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** summer · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 883 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a frozen swallow while the field-mouse plans her wedding to the mole» 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/883-pg27200-part94/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:883-pg27200-part94:t11:1
# text = why's the summer over so fast, the earth's all rock hard
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the summer |  |  |  |  | over, why *property* | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the summer sun made the soil dry and very dusty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:883-pg27200-part94:t11:o1:1
# text = the summer sun made the soil dry and very dusty
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the summer sun | the soil |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the sun dried it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:883-pg27200-part94:t11:o2:1
# text = the sun dried it up
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry up** | past | the sun | it |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the heat cooked the dirt into a hard crust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:883-pg27200-part94:t11:o3:1
# text = the heat cooked the dirt into a hard crust
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | past | the heat | the dirt |  |  |  | into a hard crust *result* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent dirt=Patient into crust=Result |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the heat burned the ground till it was like stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:883-pg27200-part94:t11:o4:1
# text = the heat burned the ground till it was like stone
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past | the heat | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | heat |  |  |  | till stone |  | tree rules |

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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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