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title: Who saved her in the end, the Dwarfs or the Huntsman? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who saved her in the end, the Dwarfs or the Huntsman? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace…

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Who saved her in the end, the Dwarfs or the Huntsman?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** save · **To what, where:** her, end

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1578 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snowdrop, part 75: the peddler's lace and the poisonous comb» 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/1578-pg540-part75/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:t8:1
# text = Who saved her in the end, the Dwarfs or the Huntsman?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past |  | her *= she* |  |  | in the end  the Dwarfs or the Huntsman |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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The Dwarfs, but only after the Queen had fled to the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:t8:o1:1
# text = The Dwarfs, but only after the Queen had fled to the castle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past · perfect | the Queen | the Dwarfs *not said here* |  |  |  | to the castle | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Huntsman, who came back with the boar's lungs and cut her free

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:t8:o2:1
# text = The Huntsman, who came back with the boar's lungs and cut her free
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | the Huntsman |  |  |  |  | with the boar's lungs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | past | the Huntsman *not said here* | Huntsman's free |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset free=Product |

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

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The Dwarfs, with the scissors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:t8:o3:1
# text = The Dwarfs, with the scissors
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Huntsman, with a knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1578-pg540-part75:t8:o4:1
# text = The Huntsman, with a knife
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

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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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