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title: what did the wee robber want, pls? — Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the wee robber want, pls? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 291 «Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda finds a Prince, then robbers seize her» 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 8 · ★ · Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda find…

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what did the wee robber want, pls?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wee robber · **What happens:** do, want

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 291 «Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda finds a Prince, then robbers seize her» 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/291-pg1597-part18/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:t8:1
# text = what did the wee robber want, pls?
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	5	det	_	_
4	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	pls	pls	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the wee robber |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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 shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:t8:o1:1
# text = a shoe
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shoe	shoe	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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Gerda's cloak and boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:t8:o2:1
# text = Gerda's cloak and boots
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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her hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:t8:o3:1
# text = her hat
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Gerda's muff and frock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:t8:o4:1
# text = Gerda's muff and frock
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	muff	muff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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