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title: Wild, what grabbed Hans in the middle of the lake? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong H… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild, what grabbed Hans in the middle of the lake? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1632 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans outwits the squire's plots and beats Old Eric at Devilmoss Lake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans o…

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Wild, what grabbed Hans in the middle of the lake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** grab · **To what, where:** Hans, middle

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1632 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Strong Hans, part 21: Hans outwits the squire's plots and beats Old Eric at Devilmoss Lake» 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/1632-pg5615-part21/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1632-pg5615-part21:t11:1
# text = Wild, what grabbed Hans in the middle of the lake?
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past |  | Hans |  | the middle of the lake |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hans=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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Old Eric, rising out of the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1632-pg5615-part21:t11:o1:1
# text = Old Eric, rising out of the water
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Eric	Eric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | gerund | Old Eric *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A huge fish with teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1632-pg5615-part21:t11:o2:1
# text = A huge fish with teeth
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A monster from the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1632-pg5615-part21:t11:o3:1
# text = A monster from the dark
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A drowned log

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1632-pg5615-part21:t11:o4:1
# text = A drowned log
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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