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title: Wait, what'd the sis pick instead, fam? — Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what'd the sis pick instead, fam? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
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# Test 2 · ★ · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…

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Wait, what'd the sis pick instead, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, sis · **What happens:** wait, pick

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» 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/1308-pg3454-part33/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t2:1
# text = Wait, what'd the sis pick instead, fam?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sis	si	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **pick** | past | the sis |  |  |  |  | instead fam | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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Blessing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t2:o1:1
# text = Blessing
1	Blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Blessing, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t2:o2:1
# text = Blessing, no cap
1	Blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cloth, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t2:o3:1
# text = Cloth, bro
1	Cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The blessing, tho

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:t2:o4:1
# text = The blessing, tho
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	tho	tho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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