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title: Lol, did the hag want to be a girl or an eel? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, did the hag want to be a girl or an eel? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1075 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, part 43: Mongan turns the hag into a lovely girl and tricks Branduv into swapping wives» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 11 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, par…

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Lol, did the hag want to be a girl or an eel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hag · **What happens:** want, be · **To what, where:** girl

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1075 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, part 43: Mongan turns the hag into a lovely girl and tricks Branduv into swapping wives» 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/1075-pg2892-part43/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t11:1
# text = Lol, did the hag want to be a girl or an eel?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | the hag |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the hag *not said here* | a girl or a eel |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t11:o1:1
# text = a girl
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a young girl with golden hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t11:o2:1
# text = a young girl with golden hair
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hair	hair	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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a lovely young girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t11:o3:1
# text = a lovely young girl
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	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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an eel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1075-pg2892-part43:t11:o4:1
# text = an eel
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eel	eel	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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