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title: bro, what even is a troll? — Danish Tales, The Witch and the White… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what even is a troll? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 11 · ★ · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…

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bro, what even is a troll?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** troll

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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/1654-pg5615-part43/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t11:1
# text = bro, what even is a troll?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | bro and a troll | a troll |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a huge monster from old stories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t11:o1:1
# text = a huge monster from old stories
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a huge hairy monster who lives in caves and eats children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t11:o2:1
# text = a huge hairy monster who lives in caves and eats children
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | a huge hairy monster |  |  | caves |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | present | a huge hairy monster *not said here* | children |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rich merchant who buys land in the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t11:o3:1
# text = a rich merchant who buys land in the forest
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present | a rich merchant | land |  | the forest |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a kind old farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t11:o4:1
# text = a kind old farmer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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