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title: Dude, what did the two guys in The Elf Maiden both want? — Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kab… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did the two guys in The Elf Maiden both want? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is sw…

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Dude, what did the two guys in The Elf Maiden both want?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude, both · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** two guys, Elf Maiden

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» 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/1231-pg3282-part32/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t8:1
# text = Dude, what did the two guys in The Elf Maiden both want?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	guys	guy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Elf	Elf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude | the two guys |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guy=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | both |  |  | the Elf Maiden |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To win a boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t8:o1:1
# text = To win a boat
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | to-infinitive |  | a boat |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To catch big fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t8:o2:1
# text = To catch big fish
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | to-infinitive |  | big fish |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To claim the old canoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t8:o3:1
# text = To claim the old canoe
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	claim	claim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | the old canoe |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent canoe=Topic |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To win the same girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1231-pg3282-part32:t8:o4:1
# text = To win the same girl
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	win	win	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | to-infinitive |  | the same girl |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality |

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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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