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title: lol what made the frog's mouth shrink? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol what made the frog's mouth shrink? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

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lol what made the frog's mouth shrink?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mouth · **What happens:** make, shrink · **To what, where:** mouth

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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/888-pg27200-part99/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t11:1
# text = lol what made the frog's mouth shrink?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	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	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the frog's mouth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shrink** | infinitive | the frog's mouth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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the cold dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t11:o1:1
# text = the cold dawn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dawn	dawn	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the sunrise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t11:o2:1
# text = the sunrise
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the moonlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t11:o3:1
# text = the moonlight
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moonlight	moonlight	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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the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t11:o4:1
# text = the wind
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	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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