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title: How'd the elf get home, the lil' rascal? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: How'd the elf get home, the lil' rascal? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

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How'd the elf get home, the lil' rascal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elf · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** lil rascal

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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/821-pg27200-part32/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t6:1
# text = How'd the elf get home, the lil' rascal?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	lil	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rascal	rascal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the elf | the lil rascal |  |  |  | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rascal=Stimulus |

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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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on a windy thistle seed head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t6:o1:1
# text = on a windy thistle seed head
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	head	head	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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on a leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t6:o2:1
# text = on a leaf
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	leaf	leaf	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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in a nut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t6:o3:1
# text = in a nut
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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inside a dry rolled-up leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:821-pg27200-part32:t6:o4:1
# text = inside a dry rolled-up leaf
1	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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