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title: Real talk, what did the blood-beech look like? — Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what did the blood-beech look like? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was w
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

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Real talk, what did the blood-beech look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** blood beech · **What happens:** look · **To what, where:** Real talk

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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/948-pg27200-part159/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t7:1
# text = Real talk, what did the blood-beech look like?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	beech	beech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the blood beech | Real talk |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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pale grey, like a burnt log

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t7:o1:1
# text = pale grey, like a burnt log
1	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dark brown, like a dead negro tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t7:o2:1
# text = dark brown, like a dead negro tree
1	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bright green, like a young oak full of spring leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t7:o3:1
# text = bright green, like a young oak full of spring leaves
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bright green, like a fresh oak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:948-pg27200-part159:t7:o4:1
# text = bright green, like a fresh oak
1	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	oak	oak	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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