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title: Fr, what did the youngest lads carry? — Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, what did the youngest lads carry? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 994 «Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: grandpa recalls the shield parade, then the gale tears signs from their places» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: gra…

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Fr, what did the youngest lads carry?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr, youngest lads · **What happens:** do, carry

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 994 «Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: grandpa recalls the shield parade, then the gale tears signs from their places» 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/994-pg27200-part205/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:t10:1
# text = Fr, what did the youngest lads carry?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Fr |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present | the youngest lads |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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the lanterns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:t10:o1:1
# text = the lanterns
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the swords with lemons on the points

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:t10:o2:1
# text = the swords with lemons on the points
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the swords

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:t10:o3:1
# text = the swords
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the welcome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:994-pg27200-part205:t10:o4:1
# text = the welcome
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	welcome	welcome	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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