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title: wait, what shoes was he wearing at the show? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what shoes was he wearing at the show? Test 14 · ★ 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 of the question and of each 
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# Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…

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wait, what shoes was he wearing at the show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, shoes · **What happens:** wait, wear · **To what, where:** show

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This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t14:1
# text = wait, what shoes was he wearing at the show?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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 | **wear** | past · progressive | shoes |  |  | the show |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the Shoes of Fortune, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t14:o1:1
# text = the Shoes of Fortune, bro
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the Shoes of Fortune he borrowed from the watchman, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t14:o2:1
# text = the Shoes of Fortune he borrowed from the watchman, bro
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | past | the Shoes of Fortune |  |  | the watchman and bro |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from watchman=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Shoes of Luck, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t14:o3:1
# text = the Shoes of Luck, bro
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Luck	Luck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the galoshes he found by the door, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t14:o4:1
# text = the galoshes he found by the door, bro
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the galoshes |  |  |  |  | by the door and bro | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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