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title: be real, was Tiny happy about the wedding date at the start? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Ti… · tree and pragmatics
description: be real, was Tiny happy about the wedding date at the start? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to th…

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be real, was Tiny happy about the wedding date at the start?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 884 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina: Tiny is promised to the mole, flies off with the swallow, and is named Maia; then Little Tuk's story starts.» 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/884-pg27200-part95/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t11:1
# text = be real, was Tiny happy about the wedding date at the start?
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about the wedding date at the start; happy *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}

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nah, she was so not pumped about it at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t11:o1:1
# text = nah, she was so not pumped about it at all
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	pumped	pump	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pump** | past · passive |  | she |  | all |  | about it | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: subject=Theme at all=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yeah, she was thrilled about the date and the mole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t11:o2:1
# text = yeah, she was thrilled about the date and the mole
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | about the date and the mole; thrilled *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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nah, she was so not pumped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t11:o3:1
# text = nah, she was so not pumped
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	pumped	pump	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pump** | past · passive |  | she |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, she was very happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:884-pg27200-part95:t11:o4:1
# text = yeah, she was very happy
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | 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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