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title: test: Yo, what did the mice want for helping? — Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Yo, what did the mice want for helping? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» 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 was wr
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

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test: Yo, what did the mice want for helping?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** test, mice · **What happens:** do, want, help

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» 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/1726-pg640-part50/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t7:1
# text = test: Yo, what did the mice want for helping?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Yo	Yo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | test |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **want** | present | the mice |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **help** *not said to happen* | gerund | the mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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some dried meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t7:o1:1
# text = some dried meat
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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crumbs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t7:o2:1
# text = crumbs
1	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a bit of bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t7:o3:1
# text = a bit of bread
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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cheese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t7:o4:1
# text = cheese
1	cheese	cheese	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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