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title: ngl the girl was sobbing, who does she actually want? — Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's D… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl the girl was sobbing, who does she actually want? Test 6 · ★ 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; Mova's choice 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats se…

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ngl the girl was sobbing, who does she actually want?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl girl · **What happens:** sob, want

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t6:1
# text = ngl the girl was sobbing, who does she actually want?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sob** | past · progressive | the ngl girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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 young rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t6:o1:1
# text = a young rat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fine suitor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t6:o2:1
# text = a fine suitor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	suitor	suitor	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 handsome young rat with a golden tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t6:o3:1
# text = a handsome young rat with a golden tail
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1227-pg3282-part28:t6:o4:1
# text = a bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	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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