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title: Did the storks have a proper row or what? — Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Dau… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the storks have a proper row or what? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 891 «Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Helga grows wild, and the Vikings bring home a Christian priest.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Hel…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Did the storks have a proper row or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** storks · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** proper row

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 891 «Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Helga grows wild, and the Vikings bring home a Christian priest.» 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/891-pg27200-part102/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:891-pg27200-part102:t9:1
# text = Did the storks have a proper row or what?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the storks | a proper row |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the mamma stork went off on the papa big time, like proper mad

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:891-pg27200-part102:t9:o1:1
# text = Yeah, the mamma stork went off on the papa big time, like proper mad
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | the mamma stork |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the mamma stork went off on the papa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:891-pg27200-part102:t9:o2:1
# text = Yeah, the mamma stork went off on the papa
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | the mamma stork |  |  | the papa |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on papa=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the mamma stork went off on the papa stork for ages and ages

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:891-pg27200-part102:t9:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the mamma stork went off on the papa stork for ages and ages
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | the mamma stork |  |  |  |  | on the papa stork for ages and ages | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stork=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the papa stork went off at mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:891-pg27200-part102:t9:o4:1
# text = Yeah, the papa stork went off at mum
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | the papa stork |  |  |  |  | at mum | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at mum=Location |

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