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title: Wait, who gave the kids a lift over the water? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could Bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, who gave the kids a lift over the water? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a…

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Wait, who gave the kids a lift over the water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, give · **To what, where:** lift, kids, water

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» 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/102-pg11027-part5/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t3:1
# text = Wait, who gave the kids a lift over the water?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lift	lift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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 | **give** | past |  | a lift | the kids | the water |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient lift=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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a goose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t3:o1:1
# text = a goose
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	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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a grey owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t3:o2:1
# text = a grey owl
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	owl	owl	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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a large white duck from the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t3:o3:1
# text = a large white duck from the water
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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a white duck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t3:o4:1
# text = a white duck
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	duck	duck	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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