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title: ngl, what did he want to learn in that castle, fr? — Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Wen… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what did he want to learn in that castle, fr? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

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ngl, what did he want to learn in that castle, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** want, learn · **To what, where:** castle

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» 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/1435-pg503-part22/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t2:1
# text = ngl, what did he want to learn in that castle, fr?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | ngl |  |  |  |  | ngl *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | ngl *not said here* |  |  | that castle and fr |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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How to be afraid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t2:o1:1
# text = How to be afraid
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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How to shudder and feel afraid of the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t2:o2:1
# text = How to shudder and feel afraid of the dark
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	shudder	shudder	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shudder** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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How to shudder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t2:o3:1
# text = How to shudder
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To learn to be scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1435-pg503-part22:t2:o4:1
# text = To learn to be scared
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	learn	learn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |

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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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