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title: wait, which big guy did the rat mom want her kid to marry first? — Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's D… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, which big guy did the rat mom want her kid to marry first? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1227 «Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats seek the greatest husband» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 3 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats se…

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wait, which big guy did the rat mom want her kid to marry first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, big guy, kid · **What happens:** wait, want, marry · **To what, where:** kid

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1227 «Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats seek the greatest husband» 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/1227-pg3282-part28/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t3:1
# text = wait, which big guy did the rat mom want her kid to marry first?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	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 | **want** | past · do-support | big guy | mom's kid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mom's kid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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the powerful sun god above the clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t3:o1:1
# text = the powerful sun god above the clouds
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t3:o2:1
# text = the moon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	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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the cloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t3:o3:1
# text = the cloud
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t3:o4:1
# text = the sun
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	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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