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title: Wait, the shabby girl wanted a hare for what, like? — Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, the shabby girl wanted a hare for what, like? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1786 «Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a hundred hares and collects three strange payments» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 2 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a…

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Wait, the shabby girl wanted a hare for what, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, shabby girl · **What happens:** wait, want · **To what, where:** hare

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1786 «Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a hundred hares and collects three strange payments» 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/1786-pg641-part37/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1786-pg641-part37:t2:1
# text = Wait, the shabby girl wanted a hare for what, like?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	shabby	shabby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | past | the shabby girl | a hare |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme what=Attribute |

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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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Dinner for the posh visitors staying at her house this weekend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1786-pg641-part37:t2:o1:1
# text = Dinner for the posh visitors staying at her house this weekend
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | gerund | the posh visitors *not said here* |  |  | her house | weekend |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A dinner for relations

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1786-pg641-part37:t2:o2:1
# text = A dinner for relations
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dinner for posh visitors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1786-pg641-part37:t2:o3:1
# text = Dinner for posh visitors
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A big dinner party for all the posh visitors in the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1786-pg641-part37:t2:o4:1
# text = A big dinner party for all the posh visitors in the palace
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

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