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title: Fr, what did she first think the swans were? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, what did she first think the swans were? Test 8 · ★ 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 p
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

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Fr, what did she first think the swans were?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** think, be · **To what, where:** Fr, swans

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t8:1
# text = Fr, what did she first think the swans were?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | she | Fr |  |  |  | first *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the swans |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t8:o1:1
# text = ice
1	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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spray

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t8:o2:1
# text = spray
1	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t8:o3:1
# text = smoke
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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foam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t8:o4:1
# text = foam
1	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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