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title: What did the young man wish for when he was trapped in the railings? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the young man wish for when he was trapped in the railings? Exam question 4 of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…

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What did the young man wish for when he was trapped in the railings?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, trap · **To what, where:** young man wish, he, railings

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/280-pg1597-part7/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e4:1
# text = What did the young man wish for when he was trapped in the railings?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	railings	railing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the young man wish |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality |
| 2 | **trap** | past · passive |  | he |  | the railings |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in railing=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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That his head were loose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e4:o1:1
# text = That his head were loose
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | his head |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That the iron bars would bend back for him at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e4:o2:1
# text = That the iron bars would bend back for him at once
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend back** | would | That |  |  |  |  | for him *= he* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That he could slide out of the railings like a cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e4:o3:1
# text = That he could slide out of the railings like a cat
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	slide	slide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	railings	railing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | could | That |  |  | the railings like a cat |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out railing=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That his neck were bent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:e4:o4:1
# text = That his neck were bent
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | past · passive |  | his neck |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |

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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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