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title: Oi, why did Minnikin want food for five weeks, mate? — Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, why did Minnikin want food for five weeks, mate? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the se…

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Oi, why did Minnikin want food for five weeks, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Minnikin · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** food

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» 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/1574-pg540-part71/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t9:1
# text = Oi, why did Minnikin want food for five weeks, mate?
1	Oi	oi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | Minnikin | food |  |  | week |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Cos he had a huge sea trip ahead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t9:o1:1
# text = Cos he had a huge sea trip ahead
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | he | a huge sea trip |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cos he had a long trip ahead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t9:o2:1
# text = Cos he had a long trip ahead
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | he | a long trip |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cos he had a massive voyage ahead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t9:o3:1
# text = Cos he had a massive voyage ahead
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | he | a massive voyage |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cos he had a massive voyage ahead across the cold sea, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1574-pg540-part71:t9:o4:1
# text = Cos he had a massive voyage ahead across the cold sea, mate
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | he | a massive voyage |  | the cold sea and mate |  | ahead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Patient |

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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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