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title: bro, who did Mother Snail send to find a wife? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, who did Mother Snail send to find a wife? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

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bro, who did Mother Snail send to find a wife?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** snail, find · **To what, where:** send, wife

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» 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/300-pg1597-part27/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t11:1
# text = bro, who did Mother Snail send to find a wife?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Snail	snail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	send	send	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snail** | past · do-support |  | send |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent send=Location |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | a wife |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |

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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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the wood-lice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t11:o1:1
# text = the wood-lice
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the flies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t11:o2:1
# text = the flies
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the white gnats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t11:o3:1
# text = the white gnats
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the white gnats from the pond edge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t11:o4:1
# text = the white gnats from the pond edge
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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