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title: what did the troll hag want her daughter to fetch? — Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the troll hag want her daughter to fetch? Test 9 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

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what did the troll hag want her daughter to fetch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** troll hag, daughter · **What happens:** do, want, fetch · **To what, where:** daughter

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t9:1
# text = what did the troll hag want her daughter to fetch?
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	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the troll hag | hag's daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | hag's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 {#o1}

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the cloak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t9:o1:1
# text = the cloak
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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water from the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t9:o2:1
# text = water from the river
1	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t9:o3:1
# text = a cup
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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milk from the cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t9:o4:1
# text = milk from the cows
1	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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