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description: what did the sunbeam show in the dusty room, like, the dust doing what? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 941 «Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends leaves home and the word BELIEVE glows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends lea…

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what did the sunbeam show in the dusty room, like, the dust doing what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sunbeam, dust · **What happens:** do, show · **To what, where:** dusty room, dust

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 941 «Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends leaves home and the word BELIEVE glows» 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/941-pg27200-part152/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t10:1
# text = what did the sunbeam show in the dusty room, like, the dust doing what?
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	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | present | the sunbeam |  |  | the dusty room  the dust |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | the dust *not said here* | the dust |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dance in circles across the dusty room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t10:o1:1
# text = dance in circles across the dusty room
1	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
circle round and round in the sunbeam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t10:o2:1
# text = circle round and round in the sunbeam
1	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
circle round

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t10:o3:1
# text = circle round
1	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
spin about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t10:o4:1
# text = spin about
1	spin	spin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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