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title: bro, what was Helga's old form before the sun changed her? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what was Helga's old form before the sun changed her? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

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bro, what was Helga's old form before the sun changed her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be, change · **To what, where:** old form, Helga

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t9:1
# text = bro, what was Helga's old form before the sun changed her?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bro | Helga's old form |  |  | before the sun |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | past | bro | Helga |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a frog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t9:o1:1
# text = a frog
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
frog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t9:o2:1
# text = frog
1	frog	frog	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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a stork with a frog's croak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t9:o3:1
# text = a stork with a frog's croak
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	croak	croak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** |  | a frog |  |  |  |  |  | nom croak «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a stork

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t9:o4:1
# text = a stork
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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