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title: The dwarf gave him three wishes, innit? What did he pick first? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in… · tree and pragmatics
description: The dwarf gave him three wishes, innit? What did he pick first? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 758 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Elsie runs off, and a servant turns a miser's money into a dancing bush» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

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The dwarf gave him three wishes, innit? What did he pick first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dwarf, three wishes · **What happens:** give, innit, pick · **To what, where:** three wishes, him

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 758 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Elsie runs off, and a servant turns a miser's money into a dancing bush» 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/758-pg2591-part34/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The dwarf gave him three wishes, innit?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t4:1
# text = The dwarf gave him three wishes, innit?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the dwarf | three wishes | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wish=Theme |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | three wishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did he pick first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t4:2
# text = What did he pick first?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | past · do-support | dwarf |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A wish that brings gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t4:o1:1
# text = A wish that brings gold
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | a wish | gold |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A bow that hits everything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t4:o2:1
# text = A bow that hits everything
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | present | a bow | everything |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A fiddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t4:o3:1
# text = A fiddle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fiddle	fiddle	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 bow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t4:o4:1
# text = A bow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bow	bow	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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