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title: bruh why did Karen's feet just NOT stop dancing lol? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh why did Karen's feet just NOT stop dancing lol? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 957 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dances in her red shoes and cannot stop» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dan…

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bruh why did Karen's feet just NOT stop dancing lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** feet · **What happens:** not stop, dance

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 957 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dances in her red shoes and cannot stop» 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/957-pg27200-part168/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t1:1
# text = bruh why did Karen's feet just NOT stop dancing lol?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stop** | past · do-support | Karen's feet |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dance** | gerund | Karen's feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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cuz the shoes had a spell on them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t1:o1:1
# text = cuz the shoes had a spell on them
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuz** | infinitive | the shoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the shoes | a spell |  |  |  | on them *= they* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient |

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

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cuz the shoes were cursed and had her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t1:o2:1
# text = cuz the shoes were cursed and had her
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cuz** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **curse** | past · passive |  | the shoes |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | you *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bc the shoes were red lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t1:o3:1
# text = bc the shoes were red lol
1	bc	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the bc shoes |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cuz they were cursed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t1:o4:1
# text = cuz they were cursed
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | past · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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