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title: Mate, so did the lindorm come out first or the prince? — Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, so did the lindorm come out first or the prince? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1664 «Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen eats magic onions and bears a serpent» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 7 · ★ · Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen…

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Mate, so did the lindorm come out first or the prince?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, come out · **To what, where:** lindorm

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1664 «Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen eats magic onions and bears a serpent» 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/1664-pg5615-part53/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t7:1
# text = Mate, so did the lindorm come out first or the prince?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate *not said here* | the lindorm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lindorm=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come out** | present | Mate |  |  |  |  | first, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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 -->
The lindorm, the grotty ugly one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t7:o1:1
# text = The lindorm, the grotty ugly one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	grotty	grotty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The prince came out right first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t7:o2:1
# text = The prince came out right first
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | first, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The lindorm came out first, the grotty ugly one, then the prince came after him, dead proper

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t7:o3:1
# text = The lindorm came out first, the grotty ugly one, then the prince came after him, dead proper
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	grotty	grotty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
20	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the lindorm |  |  |  |  | first, out, properly *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the prince |  |  |  | after lindorm; then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The prince, the nice one, came out first and then the grotty lindorm crawled out of the sack after him

<!-- fold The tree, 20 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t7:o4:1
# text = The prince, the nice one, came out first and then the grotty lindorm crawled out of the sack after him
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	grotty	grotty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | first, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **crawl** | past | the grotty lindorm |  |  | the sack | after prince; then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out sack=Trajectory |

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