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title: What did the thistle call the bees, like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the thistle call the bees, like? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 998 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 209: a prince leaves a proud princess, and a thistle dreams of glory» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 20…

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What did the thistle call the bees, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** thistle · **What happens:** do, call · **To what, where:** bees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 998 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 209: a prince leaves a proud princess, and a thistle dreams of glory» 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/998-pg27200-part209/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:998-pg27200-part209:t9:1
# text = What did the thistle call the bees, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present | the thistle |  | the bees |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient |

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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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Cheeky pests, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:998-pg27200-part209:t9:o1:1
# text = Cheeky pests, bruv
1	Cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	pests	pest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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Rude bees, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:998-pg27200-part209:t9:o2:1
# text = Rude bees, mate
1	Rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Noisy lot of buzzers, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:998-pg27200-part209:t9:o3:1
# text = Noisy lot of buzzers, mate
1	Noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	buzzers	buzzer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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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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Thievish rabble, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:998-pg27200-part209:t9:o4:1
# text = Thievish rabble, mate
1	Thievish	thievish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rabble	rabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	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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