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title: what did the girl beg for before she'd go? — Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the girl beg for before she'd go? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

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what did the girl beg for before she'd go?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** do, go · **To what, where:** girl beg

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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/1732-pg640-part56/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t10:1
# text = what did the girl beg for before she'd go?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the girl beg |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beg=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** | would | she | the girl beg *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beg=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 gold cloak and the chess-board first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t10:o1:1
# text = the gold cloak and the chess-board first
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the whole of the King's treasure chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t10:o2:1
# text = the whole of the King's treasure chest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the bright gold piece

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t10:o3:1
# text = the bright gold piece
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the gold chess-board

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t10:o4:1
# text = the gold chess-board
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	board	board	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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