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title: wait, did the doctor help him out at all? — Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: an… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, did the doctor help him out at all? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

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wait, did the doctor help him out at all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, doctor · **What happens:** wait, help out · **To what, where:** him, all

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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/1914-pg7277-part51/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t10:1
# text = wait, did the doctor help him out at all?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **help out** | past · do-support | the doctor |  | him *= he* | all |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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nope, the doctor had gone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t10:o1:1
# text = nope, the doctor had gone
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nope, the doctor had gone off to the far city long before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t10:o2:1
# text = nope, the doctor had gone off to the far city long before
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past · perfect | the doctor |  |  |  |  | to the far city; before *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, the doctor came back later and did help him after all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t10:o3:1
# text = yes, the doctor came back later and did help him after all
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | the doctor |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | past · do-support | the doctor *not said here* |  | doctor |  | after all |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, but only a little

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t10:o4:1
# text = yes, but only a little
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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