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title: Did the girls look like cool glam, or what? — Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the girls look like cool glam, or what? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 953 «Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts with artists, buries his marble statue and turns to faith» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts…

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Did the girls look like cool glam, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girls · **What happens:** look, glam

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 953 «Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts with artists, buries his marble statue and turns to faith» 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/953-pg27200-part164/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:t8:1
# text = Did the girls look like cool glam, or what?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
7	glam	glam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **glam** | present | the girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like cool | 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 {#o1}

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Yeah, they looked like hot carnations, like full on fire in the candlelight

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:t8:o1:1
# text = Yeah, they looked like hot carnations, like full on fire in the candlelight
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	carnations	carnation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	candlelight	candlelight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | they |  |  |  |  | like hot carnations; in the candlelight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in candlelight=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nope, they looked kinda tired and dull

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:t8:o2:1
# text = Nope, they looked kinda tired and dull
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | kinda, tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Yeah, they looked like hot carnations

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, they looked like hot carnations
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	carnations	carnation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | they |  |  |  |  | like hot carnations | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they looked like hot carnations, super bright and glowing with life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:t8:o4:1
# text = Yeah, they looked like hot carnations, super bright and glowing with life
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	carnations	carnation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	super	super	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | they |  |  |  |  | like hot carnations | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with life | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with life=Theme |

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