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title: no cap, what did Helga keep staring at while she waited? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, what did Helga keep staring at while she waited? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

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no cap, what did Helga keep staring at while she waited?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Helga, cap · **What happens:** keep, stare, wait · **To what, where:** cap

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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/897-pg27200-part108/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t14:1
# text = no cap, what did Helga keep staring at while she waited?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | Helga | no cap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** | gerund | no cap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | past | Helga |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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the stork pair flying over the monument

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t14:o1:1
# text = the stork pair flying over the monument
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund | the stork pair *not said here* |  |  | the monument |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over monument=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a silver light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t14:o2:1
# text = a silver light
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a glowing star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t14:o3:1
# text = a glowing star
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a glowing star above the garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t14:o4:1
# text = a glowing star above the garden
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	above	above	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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