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title: Wait, what did the merchant's son buy for his big finale? — Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the merchant's son buy for his big finale? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

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Wait, what did the merchant's son buy for his big finale?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, merchant · **What happens:** wait, do, buy · **To what, where:** son buy

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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/829-pg27200-part40/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t5:1
# text = Wait, what did the merchant's son buy for his big finale?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	buy	buy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	finale	finale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the merchant's son buy |  |  |  | for his big finale | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buy=Eventuality |
| 3 | **buy** |  | the merchant |  |  |  |  |  | nom buy «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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crackers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t5:o1:1
# text = crackers
1	crackers	cracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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rockets and crackers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t5:o2:1
# text = rockets and crackers
1	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	crackers	cracker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sweets and toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t5:o3:1
# text = sweets and toys
1	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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silk and lanterns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t5:o4:1
# text = silk and lanterns
1	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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