--- title: hold up, why couldn't she hit the frog? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics description: hold up, why couldn't she hit the frog? Test 14 · ★ 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 pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/888-pg27200-part99/t14/) [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, The Marsh King…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/888-pg27200-part99/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99… hold up, why couldn't she hit the frog? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, she · **What happens:** hold up, not hit · **To what, where:** frog This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t14:1 # text = hold up, why couldn't she hit the frog? 1 hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold up** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **not** **hit** | could | she | the frog | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frog=Co-Theme | 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} its size ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t14:o1:1 # text = its size 1 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} its slimy skin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t14:o2:1 # text = its slimy skin 1 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 slimy slimy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} its sad eyes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t14:o3:1 # text = its sad eyes 1 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} its legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t14:o4:1 # text = its legs 1 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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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