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title: Yeah but, what kind of dad did Helga have? — Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeah but, what kind of dad did Helga have? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 715 «Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three giantesses, then finds the horse Gullfaxi and the sword Gunnfjoder» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three gi…

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Yeah but, what kind of dad did Helga have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kind · **What happens:** have

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 715 «Norse Tales, Prince Sigurd, part 55: Sigurd beats three giantesses, then finds the horse Gullfaxi and the sword Gunnfjoder» 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/715-pg2435-part55/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:715-pg2435-part55:t5:1
# text = Yeah but, what kind of dad did Helga have?
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | what kind of dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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}

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A fierce giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:715-pg2435-part55:t5:o1:1
# text = A fierce giant
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A wise king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:715-pg2435-part55:t5:o2:1
# text = A wise king
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A kind farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:715-pg2435-part55:t5:o3:1
# text = A kind farmer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A grumpy shepherd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:715-pg2435-part55:t5:o4:1
# text = A grumpy shepherd
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shepherd	shepherd	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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