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title: bro, who asked to borrow the goloshes? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, who asked to borrow the goloshes? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bro, who asked to borrow the goloshes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** ask, borrow · **To what, where:** goloshes

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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/842-pg27200-part53/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t1:1
# text = bro, who asked to borrow the goloshes?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **borrow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the goloshes |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent golosh=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the divinity student

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t1:o1:1
# text = the divinity student
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	divinity	divinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the travelling peddler

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t1:o2:1
# text = the travelling peddler
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	peddler	peddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the clerk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t1:o3:1
# text = the clerk
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the old innkeeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:842-pg27200-part53:t1:o4:1
# text = the old innkeeper
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	innkeeper	innkeeper	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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