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title: What did John thank for helping him, innit? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did John thank for helping him, innit? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

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What did John thank for helping him, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** John · **What happens:** thank, help, innit · **To what, where:** John

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» 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/1009-pg27200-part220/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t11:1
# text = What did John thank for helping him, innit?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past · do-support | John |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | gerund | John *not said here* |  | John |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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God

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t11:o1:1
# text = God
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t11:o2:1
# text = luck
1	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t11:o3:1
# text = Fate
1	Fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t11:o4:1
# text = the king
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	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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