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title: ngl, what did she hand him that the guards had taken? — Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what did she hand him that the guards had taken? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 2048 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Theseus and gives him a silken string to find his way through the maze.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Thes…

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ngl, what did she hand him that the guards had taken?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** hand, take · **To what, where:** him, guards

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2048 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Theseus and gives him a silken string to find his way through the maze.» 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/2048-pg976-part7/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2048-pg976-part7:t3:1
# text = ngl, what did she hand him that the guards had taken?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | past · do-support | ngl | him *= he* |  |  |  | ngl *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the guards |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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a shield

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2048-pg976-part7:t3:o1:1
# text = a shield
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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his helmet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2048-pg976-part7:t3:o2:1
# text = his helmet
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	helmet	helmet	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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the sword and the shield the guards took

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2048-pg976-part7:t3:o3:1
# text = the sword and the shield the guards took
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the sword and the shield |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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his sword

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2048-pg976-part7:t3:o4:1
# text = his sword
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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