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title: Lowkey, what was the mead like at the feast? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what was the mead like at the feast? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

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Lowkey, what was the mead like at the feast?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lowkey · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mead

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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/889-pg27200-part100/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t9:1
# text = Lowkey, what was the mead like at the feast?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Lowkey | the mead |  |  |  | like the feast | 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 -->
Mead they drank loads of

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t9:o1:1
# text = Mead they drank loads of
1	Mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | Mead | loads |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stuff they drank a ton of

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t9:o2:1
# text = Stuff they drank a ton of
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ton	ton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | Stuff | a ton |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ton=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stuff they drank a ton of until the bard sang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t9:o3:1
# text = Stuff they drank a ton of until the bard sang
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ton	ton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | Stuff | a ton |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ton=Patient |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the bard |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Honey wine they drank in huge amounts all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t9:o4:1
# text = Honey wine they drank in huge amounts all night
1	Honey	honey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | Honey wine |  |  | huge amounts | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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