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title: Wagwan, who was the dodgy spy hiding in the bush? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wagwan, who was the dodgy spy hiding in the bush? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 737 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid takes the bride's place and Curdken spies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…

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Wagwan, who was the dodgy spy hiding in the bush?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Wagwan, dodgy spy · **What happens:** be, hide · **To what, where:** dodgy spy, bush

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 737 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid takes the bride's place and Curdken spies» 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/737-pg2591-part13/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t8:1
# text = Wagwan, who was the dodgy spy hiding in the bush?
1	Wagwan	Wagwan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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 | **is a** | past | Wagwan | the dodgy spy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | the dodgy spy *not said here* |  |  | the bush |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location |

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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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the royal chamberlain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t8:o1:1
# text = the royal chamberlain
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chamberlain	chamberlain	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the old king himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t8:o2:1
# text = the old king himself
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the goose-boy Curdken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t8:o3:1
# text = the goose-boy Curdken
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t8:o4:1
# text = the prince
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	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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