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title: Why was the hall so miserable before Hermod came back? — Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why was the hall so miserable before Hermod came back? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1746 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod, and Hermod becomes King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 13 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod…

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Why was the hall so miserable before Hermod came back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hall, Hermod · **What happens:** be, come back

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1746 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod, and Hermod becomes King» 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/1746-pg640-part70/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1746-pg640-part70:t13:1
# text = Why was the hall so miserable before Hermod came back?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hall |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | past | Hermod |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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Monsters ate everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1746-pg640-part70:t13:o1:1
# text = Monsters ate everyone
1	Monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Monsters | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The King had lost his crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1746-pg640-part70:t13:o2:1
# text = The King had lost his crown
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect | the King | King's crown |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality |
| 2 | **crown** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The monsters scared off the guests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1746-pg640-part70:t13:o3:1
# text = The monsters scared off the guests
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scared	scare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare off** | past | the monsters | the guests |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus guest=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The monsters ruined all the fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1746-pg640-part70:t13:o4:1
# text = The monsters ruined all the fun
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ruin** | past | the monsters | all fun |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |

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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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