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title: Mate, what's the ring actually for? — Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what's the ring actually for? Test 6 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 6 · ★ · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

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Mate, what's the ring actually for?

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

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t6:1
# text = Mate, what's the ring actually for?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mate and the ring | the ring |  |  |  |  | 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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Going home by wishing, as long as nobody names them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t6:o1:1
# text = Going home by wishing, as long as nobody names them
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
10	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **name** | present | nobody | them *= they* |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wishing for gold and silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t6:o2:1
# text = Wishing for gold and silver
1	Wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for gold and silver | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for gold=Theme |

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

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Going home by wishing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t6:o3:1
# text = Going home by wishing
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Making wishes come true

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t6:o4:1
# text = Making wishes come true
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | Making wishes |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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