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title: How did the mate know about the shoe, like, honestly? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did the mate know about the shoe, like, honestly? Test 8 · ★ 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 eac
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

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How did the mate know about the shoe, like, honestly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** do, know · **To what, where:** mate

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t8:1
# text = How did the mate know about the shoe, like, honestly?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the mate |  |  |  | about the shoe; honestly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Eventuality |
| 2 | **know** | present | the mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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from a spirit of the mountain who listened at the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t8:o1:1
# text = from a spirit of the mountain who listened at the door
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | the mountain |  |  |  |  | at the door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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from the magician in the mountain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t8:o2:1
# text = from the magician in the mountain
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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from an old servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t8:o3:1
# text = from an old servant
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	servant	servant	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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from the wise magician who lives high in the mountain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t8:o4:1
# text = from the wise magician who lives high in the mountain
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the wise magician |  |  | the mountain |  | high *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location |

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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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