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title: Wait, which way did he take going home? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, which way did he take going home? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…

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Wait, which way did he take going home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, way · **What happens:** wait, take, go

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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/1830-pg7128-part14/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t10:1
# text = Wait, which way did he take going home?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	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 | **take** | past · do-support | which way |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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Back home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t10:o1:1
# text = Back home
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Down the hill path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t10:o2:1
# text = Down the hill path
1	Down	down	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t10:o3:1
# text = By boat
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The same way he came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t10:o4:1
# text = The same way he came
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | he | the same way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |

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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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