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title: what's the vibe of the old soldier's beard? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the vibe of the old soldier's beard? Test 12 · ★ 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; Mova's choi
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dan…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what's the vibe of the old soldier's beard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** vibe · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t12:1
# text = what's the vibe of the old soldier's beard?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	vibe	vibe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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 | the vibe of the old soldier's beard |  |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
long and red and tied up very neatly in a knot at the back of the head

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t12:o1:1
# text = long and red and tied up very neatly in a knot at the back of the head
1	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | participle · passive |  | long |  | a knot |  | at the back of the head; neatly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wonderfully long and bushy, more red than white with grey streaks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t12:o2:1
# text = wonderfully long and bushy, more red than white with grey streaks
1	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	streaks	streak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wonderfully long, more white than red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t12:o3:1
# text = wonderfully long, more white than red
1	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wonderfully long, more red than white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:957-pg27200-part168:t12:o4:1
# text = wonderfully long, more red than white
1	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
```

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

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