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title: Which sister did Halvor like best, like, who was the favourite? — Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which sister did Halvor like best, like, who was the favourite? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

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Which sister did Halvor like best, like, who was the favourite?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** Halvor, favourite

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» 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/1511-pg540-part8/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t5:1
# text = Which sister did Halvor like best, like, who was the favourite?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	favourite	favourite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which sister | Halvor |  |  |  | like best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halvor=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the favourite |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Middle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t5:o1:1
# text = Middle
1	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t5:o2:1
# text = Her
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The youngest one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t5:o3:1
# text = The youngest one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The eldest one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t5:o4:1
# text = The eldest one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	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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