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title: so the mom wanted Stan gone, but how? — Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the mom wanted Stan gone, but how? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1770 «Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits the dragon and his mother» 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 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits th…

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so the mom wanted Stan gone, but how?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mom · **What happens:** want · **To what, where:** Stan

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1770 «Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits the dragon and his mother» 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/1770-pg641-part21/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t5:1
# text = so the mom wanted Stan gone, but how?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the mom | Stan |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stan=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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she wanted the dragon to murder him in his sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t5:o1:1
# text = she wanted the dragon to murder him in his sleep
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	murder	murder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she | the dragon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **murder** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the dragon *not said here* | dragon |  | dragon's sleep |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **sleep** |  | dragon |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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she wanted him gone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t5:o2:1
# text = she wanted him gone
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | participle | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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she wanted him to leave the farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t5:o3:1
# text = she wanted him to leave the farm
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* | the farm |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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she hoped Stan would just walk away quietly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t5:o4:1
# text = she hoped Stan would just walk away quietly
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **walk away** | would | Stan |  |  |  |  | away, quietly *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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