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title: who actually shot the big stag, dude? — Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus an… · tree and pragmatics
description: who actually shot the big stag, dude? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…

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who actually shot the big stag, dude?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** shoot · **To what, where:** big stag

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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/709-pg2435-part49/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t4:1
# text = who actually shot the big stag, dude?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past |  | the big stag and dude |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=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 {#o1}

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Niels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t4:o1:1
# text = Niels
1	Niels	Niels	PROPN	NNP	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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Their guide from the inn who knew the forest well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t4:o2:1
# text = Their guide from the inn who knew the forest well
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Their guide from the inn | the forest |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The innkeeper's youngest son who had come along

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t4:o3:1
# text = The innkeeper's youngest son who had come along
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	along	along	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** | past · perfect | the innkeeper's youngest son |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Rasmus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:709-pg2435-part49:t4:o4:1
# text = Rasmus
1	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	NNP	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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