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title: wait, what was the invisible thread she held onto? — Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what was the invisible thread she held onto? Test 2 · ★ 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 of each option; Mova's
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends lea…

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wait, what was the invisible thread she held onto?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, she · **What happens:** wait, be, hold · **To what, where:** invisible thread

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t2:1
# text = wait, what was the invisible thread she held onto?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the invisible thread |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | past | she | the invisible thread *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a thread home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t2:o1:1
# text = a thread home
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	home	home	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 -->
a cord to the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t2:o2:1
# text = a cord to the sun
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t2:o3:1
# text = a rope
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a thread to her father's house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t2:o4:1
# text = a thread to her father's house
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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