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title: Yo, how tall were the elves? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how tall were the elves? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

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Yo, how tall were the elves?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** elves · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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/989-pg27200-part200/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t10:1
# text = Yo, how tall were the elves?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the elves |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
not higher than her knee, and very light on their feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t10:o1:1
# text = not higher than her knee, and very light on their feet
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
not higher than her knee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t10:o2:1
# text = not higher than her knee
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
so small they could stand under a leaf, about her knee high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t10:o3:1
# text = so small they could stand under a leaf, about her knee high
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | could | they |  |  | a leaf |  | about her knee | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under leaf=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no taller than a spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t10:o4:1
# text = no taller than a spoon
1	no	no	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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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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