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title: the street built his house, lol how? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop:… · tree and pragmatics
description: the street built his house, lol how? Test 11 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mo
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

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the street built his house, lol how?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** street · **What happens:** build · **To what, where:** house

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t11:1
# text = the street built his house, lol how?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the street | street's house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |

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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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the street did it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t11:o1:1
# text = the street did it
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the street | it |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the people in the town all said so, it's what they reckoned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t11:o2:1
# text = the people in the town all said so, it's what they reckoned
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	ccomp	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the people in the town |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | town |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reckon** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the town agreed, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t11:o3:1
# text = the town agreed, bro
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the town | bro |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent bro=Topic |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the people said so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:987-pg27200-part198:t11:o4:1
# text = the people said so
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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