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title: Her sister had a gold ring, no cap. What was it for? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her sister had a gold ring, no cap. What was it for? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 823 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin…

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Her sister had a gold ring, no cap. What was it for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** gold ring, ring

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 823 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf Hill: the Norwegian goblin visits, and the seven daughters show their skills» 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/823-pg27200-part34/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Her sister had a gold ring, no cap.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:t5:1
# text = Her sister had a gold ring, no cap.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Her sister | a gold ring |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |

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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 was it for?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:t5:2
# text = What was it for?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | ring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Just jewellery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:t5:o1:1
# text = Just jewellery
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	jewellery	jewellery	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A betrothal, like an engagement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:t5:o2:1
# text = A betrothal, like an engagement
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	engagement	engagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A bribe for the goblin king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:t5:o3:1
# text = A bribe for the goblin king
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bribe	bribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A promise to meet at the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:823-pg27200-part34:t5:o4:1
# text = A promise to meet at the sea
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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