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title: bro what did stork-mamma say she'd rather be stuffed with? — Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga be… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro what did stork-mamma say she'd rather be stuffed with? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…

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bro what did stork-mamma say she'd rather be stuffed with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** do, say, stuff · **To what, where:** stork mamma, bro · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» 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/895-pg27200-part106/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t7:1
# text = bro what did stork-mamma say she'd rather be stuffed with?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	mamma	mamma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | bro | stork mamma |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mamma=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stuff** | would · passive |  | bro |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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live frogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t7:o1:1
# text = live frogs
1	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t7:o2:1
# text = fish
1	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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fresh bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t7:o3:1
# text = fresh bread
1	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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mice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:895-pg27200-part106:t7:o4:1
# text = mice
1	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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