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title: Mate, what's the storm like in that bit? — Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what's the storm like in that bit? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 951 «Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a real princess» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

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Mate, what's the storm like in that bit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** storm

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 951 «Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a real princess» 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/951-pg27200-part162/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:t10:1
# text = Mate, what's the storm like in that bit?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mate and the storm | the storm |  |  |  | like that bit | tree rules |

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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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Wind and rain and some thunder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:t10:o1:1
# text = Wind and rain and some thunder
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rain and wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:t10:o2:1
# text = Rain and wind
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Loud thunder and heavy hail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:t10:o3:1
# text = Loud thunder and heavy hail
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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Thunder, lightning and pouring rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:951-pg27200-part162:t10:o4:1
# text = Thunder, lightning and pouring rain
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | gerund |  | rain |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient |

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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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