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title: wait, what did he wish for to get free? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what did he wish for to get free? Test 6 · ★ 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 option
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…

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wait, what did he wish for to get free?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, he · **What happens:** wait, wish, get · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t6:1
# text = wait, what did he wish for to get free?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	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	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	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 | **wish** | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
head loose, finally

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t6:o1:1
# text = head loose, finally
1	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
that his whole head were loose, finally, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t6:o2:1
# text = that his whole head were loose, finally, lol
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he wished his head would come off completely and just roll out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t6:o3:1
# text = he wished his head would come off completely and just roll out
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come off** | would | his head |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roll out** | infinitive | his head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
neck bent, finally

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t6:o4:1
# text = neck bent, finally
1	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | participle | neck |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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