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title: wait, who got sent to shoot him in the forest? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, who got sent to shoot him in the forest? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…

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wait, who got sent to shoot him in the forest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, send, shoot · **To what, where:** him, forest

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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/117-pg11027-part20/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t5:1
# text = wait, who got sent to shoot him in the forest?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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 | **send** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shoot** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  | the forest |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in forest=Destination |

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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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a guard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t5:o1:1
# text = a guard
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guard	guard	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the Huntsman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t5:o2:1
# text = the Huntsman
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	NNP	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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the wood cutter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t5:o3:1
# text = the wood cutter
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cutter	cutter	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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a soldier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:117-pg11027-part20:t5:o4:1
# text = a soldier
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	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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