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title: why did her frog eyes look so pretty, no lie? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: why did her frog eyes look so pretty, no lie? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

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why did her frog eyes look so pretty, no lie?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** frog eyes · **What happens:** look

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» 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/893-pg27200-part104/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t13:1
# text = why did her frog eyes look so pretty, no lie?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | her frog eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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they were sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t13:o1:1
# text = they were sad
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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they had real feelings and tears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t13:o2:1
# text = they had real feelings and tears
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | they | real feelings and tears |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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they glowed with a soft gentle light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t13:o3:1
# text = they glowed with a soft gentle light
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | past | they |  |  |  |  | with a soft gentle light | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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she was crying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t13:o4:1
# text = she was crying
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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