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title: bruh what was the elder stump actually? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh what was the elder stump actually? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bruh what was the elder stump actually?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** elder stump

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t5:1
# text = bruh what was the elder stump actually?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the elder stump |  |  |  | actually *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Marsh King

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t5:o1:1
# text = the Marsh King
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the old king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t5:o2:1
# text = the old king
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	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 cursed prince who lived in the far south

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t5:o3:1
# text = the cursed prince who lived in the far south
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | past | the cursed prince |  |  | the far south |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in south=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the wicked hidden father of the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t5:o4:1
# text = the wicked hidden father of the princess
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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