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title: wait, what did the stranger want for his magic goop? — Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Compa… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what did the stranger want for his magic goop? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

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wait, what did the stranger want for his magic goop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, stranger · **What happens:** wait, want

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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/1007-pg27200-part218/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t3:1
# text = wait, what did the stranger want for his magic goop?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	goop	goop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	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 | **want** | past · do-support | the stranger |  |  |  |  | for stranger's magic goop | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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those three fern stems and some water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t3:o1:1
# text = those three fern stems and some water
1	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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three silver coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t3:o2:1
# text = three silver coins
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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fern stems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t3:o3:1
# text = fern stems
1	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	stems	stem	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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those three fern stems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t3:o4:1
# text = those three fern stems
1	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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