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title: the beetles in the ditch wanted him to step into what? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who… · tree and pragmatics
description: the beetles in the ditch wanted him to step into what? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 798 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels: a vain beetle wants golden shoes and finds only mud» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…

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the beetles in the ditch wanted him to step into what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** beetles, him · **What happens:** want, step · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 798 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels: a vain beetle wants golden shoes and finds only mud» 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/798-pg27200-part9/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t12:1
# text = the beetles in the ditch wanted him to step into what?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the beetles in the ditch | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **step** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into what=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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Hay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t12:o1:1
# text = Hay
1	Hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Rich mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t12:o2:1
# text = Rich mud
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mud	mud	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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Warm soup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t12:o3:1
# text = Warm soup
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	soup	soup	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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Dirt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:798-pg27200-part9:t12:o4:1
# text = Dirt
1	Dirt	dirt	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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