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title: was Karen dead lazy or dead keen at work? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics
description: was Karen dead lazy or dead keen at work? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serv…

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was Karen dead lazy or dead keen at work?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» 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/958-pg27200-part169/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t4:1
# text = was Karen dead lazy or dead keen at work?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Karen |  |  |  |  | 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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dead bored and rather sulky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t4:o1:1
# text = dead bored and rather sulky
1	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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dead keen but also dead proud and always showing off to the others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t4:o2:1
# text = dead keen but also dead proud and always showing off to the others
1	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show off** | gerund |  |  | the others |  |  | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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dead cross and always moaning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t4:o3:1
# text = dead cross and always moaning
1	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moan** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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dead keen and thoughtful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:958-pg27200-part169:t4:o4:1
# text = dead keen and thoughtful
1	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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