--- title: why did the little sister's dancing look well weird? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:… · tree and pragmatics description: why did the little sister's dancing look well weird? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/922-pg27200-part133/t14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/922-pg27200-part133/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie… why did the little sister's dancing look well weird? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dancing, little sister · **What happens:** look, dance This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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/922-pg27200-part133/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t14:1 # text = why did the little sister's dancing look well weird? 1 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 10 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the little sister's dancing | | | | | weird *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **dance** | | the little sister | | | | | | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 {#o1} too tired ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t14:o1:1 # text = too tired 1 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} she fell ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t14:o2:1 # text = she fell 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | she | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} the stage was too small ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t14:o3:1 # text = the stage was too small 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the stage | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} the tune was too slow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t14:o4:1 # text = the tune was too slow 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the tune | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | **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. 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