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title: What does stork-papa think about carrying that heavy gold? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He… · tree and pragmatics
description: What does stork-papa think about carrying that heavy gold? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

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What does stork-papa think about carrying that heavy gold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** think, carry · **To what, where:** heavy gold

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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/896-pg27200-part107/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t12:1
# text = What does stork-papa think about carrying that heavy gold?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	papa	papa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund |  | that heavy gold |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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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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It's heavy but worth it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t12:o1:1
# text = It's heavy but worth it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Heavy, sure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t12:o2:1
# text = Heavy, sure
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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He finds the gold quite nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t12:o3:1
# text = He finds the gold quite nice
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | He | the gold |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He thinks it's shiny gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:896-pg27200-part107:t12:o4:1
# text = He thinks it's shiny gold
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | shiny gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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