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title: Bro, what did he wish for, exactly? — Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did he wish for, exactly? Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

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Bro, what did he wish for, exactly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** wish

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t9:1
# text = Bro, what did he wish for, exactly?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	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	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  | Bro *vocative*; exactly *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To be home or home here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t9:o1:1
# text = To be home or home here
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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To be home right now, in his mum and dad's cottage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t9:o2:1
# text = To be home right now, in his mum and dad's cottage
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | in his mum and dad's cottage | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To be back at the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t9:o3:1
# text = To be back at the castle
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To be with his sisters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1511-pg540-part8:t9:o4:1
# text = To be with his sisters
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with his sisters | 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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