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title: yo, what night was it when they hit the troll cave? — Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56:… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, what night was it when they hit the troll cave? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

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yo, what night was it when they hit the troll cave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** be, hit · **To what, where:** it, troll cave

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t5:1
# text = yo, what night was it when they hit the troll cave?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hit** | past | they | the troll cave |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient cave=Result |

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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 {#o1}

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the night before the midwinter Yule feast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t5:o1:1
# text = the night before the midwinter Yule feast
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Yule	yule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Christmas Eve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t5:o2:1
# text = Christmas Eve
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the longest night of the whole year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t5:o3:1
# text = the longest night of the whole year
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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New Year's Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t5:o4:1
# text = New Year's Day
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	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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