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title: Mate, wait, why'd the traveller nick the swan's wings? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, wait, why'd the traveller nick the swan's wings? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mate, wait, why'd the traveller nick the swan's wings?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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/1008-pg27200-part219/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t2:1
# text = Mate, wait, why'd the traveller nick the swan's wings?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	nick	nick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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* |  |  |  |  | Mate *vocative* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **nick** | infinitive | the traveller | the swan's wings |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |

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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}

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They were worth loads of money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t2:o1:1
# text = They were worth loads of money
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | They | worth loads |  |  |  | of money | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They were worth loads of money to the showman and his friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t2:o2:1
# text = They were worth loads of money to the showman and his friends
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	showman	showman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | They | worth loads and his friends |  |  |  | of money to the showman | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He wanted to fly away home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t2:o3:1
# text = He wanted to fly away home
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **fly away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, home *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They looked well nice on him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1008-pg27200-part219:t2:o4:1
# text = They looked well nice on him
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | They |  |  |  |  | on him *= he*; nice *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme |

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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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