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title: Wait, which sword did the youth grab from his dad? — Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, which sword did the youth grab from his dad? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…

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Wait, which sword did the youth grab from his dad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, sword, do · **To what, where:** youth grab

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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/704-pg2435-part44/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t6:1
# text = Wait, which sword did the youth grab from his dad?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sword	sword	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	grab	grab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **sword** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past |  | the youth grab |  |  |  | from his dad | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grab=Eventuality |

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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 one over his bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t6:o1:1
# text = the one over his bed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the sword on the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t6:o2:1
# text = the sword on the wall
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t6:o3:1
# text = the knife
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a spear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:704-pg2435-part44:t6:o4:1
# text = a spear
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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