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title: What did the ladies stick in their mouths to sound like her? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the ladies stick in their mouths to sound like her? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

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What did the ladies stick in their mouths to sound like her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ladies · **What happens:** do, stick, sound · **To what, where:** mouths

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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/912-pg27200-part123/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t10:1
# text = What did the ladies stick in their mouths to sound like her?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stick** | present | the ladies |  |  | ladies's mouths |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mouth=Destination |
| 3 | **sound** | to-infinitive | the ladies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like her *= she* | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t10:o1:1
# text = Water
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"Lemon juice"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t10:o2:1
# text = "Lemon juice"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lemon	lemon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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"Milk"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t10:o3:1
# text = "Milk"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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"Tea"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t10:o4:1
# text = "Tea"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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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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