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title: Wait, what did she see in the well, fam? — Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mothe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did she see in the well, fam? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 996 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off the child» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…

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Wait, what did she see in the well, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, she · **What happens:** wait, see · **To what, where:** well

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 996 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off the child» 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/996-pg27200-part207/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t5:1
# text = Wait, what did she see in the well, fam?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past · do-support | she |  |  | the well and fam |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One flower a blessing, one misery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t5:o1:1
# text = One flower a blessing, one misery
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One flower dead, one alive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t5:o2:1
# text = One flower dead, one alive
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
6	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Just a well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t5:o3:1
# text = Just a well
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A blessing, fam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:996-pg27200-part207:t5:o4:1
# text = A blessing, fam
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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