--- title: when they danced, what made the walls look proper special? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop:… · tree and pragmatics description: when they danced, what made the walls look proper special? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/987-pg27200-part198/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/987-pg27200-part198/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b… when they danced, what made the walls look proper special? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they, walls · **What happens:** dance, make, look This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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/987-pg27200-part198/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t10:1 # text = when they danced, what made the walls look proper special? 1 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 6 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | past | they | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | present | the walls | | | | | special *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} flowers sprang out, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t10:o1:1 # text = flowers sprang out, bruv 1 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sprang sprang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 vocative _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sprang out** | present | flowers | | | | | bruv *vocative* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} flowers sprang out from the walls and the ceiling too, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t10:o2:1 # text = flowers sprang out from the walls and the ceiling too, bruv 1 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sprang sprang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sprang out** | present | flowers | | | the walls and the ceiling | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} flowers sprang out all over the walls, bruv, it was wild ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t10:o3:1 # text = flowers sprang out all over the walls, bruv, it was wild 1 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sprang sprang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sprang out** | present | flowers | | | the walls and bruv | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | bruv | | | | | wild *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} pictures popped out, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t10:o4:1 # text = pictures popped out, bruv 1 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 popped pop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pop out** | participle | | pictures and bruv *not said here* | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | **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. 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