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title: Bro, who was the student's wish about, like, happiness, was it sorted? — Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, who was the student's wish about, like, happiness, was it sorted? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

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Bro, who was the student's wish about, like, happiness, was it sorted?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** be, sort · **To what, where:** wish, Bro

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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/843-pg27200-part54/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t10:1
# text = Bro, who was the student's wish about, like, happiness, was it sorted?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bro and happiness | the student's wish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sort** | past · passive |  | Bro and happiness |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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 {#o1}

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he wished for gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t10:o1:1
# text = he wished for gold
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | he |  |  |  |  | for gold | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for gold=Theme |

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

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he wished for the greatest happiness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t10:o2:1
# text = he wished for the greatest happiness
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | he |  |  |  |  | for the greatest happiness | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for happiness=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he hoped for a warm bed and food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t10:o3:1
# text = he hoped for a warm bed and food
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | past | he |  |  |  |  | for a warm bed and food | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for bed=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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he wished to be famous one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t10:o4:1
# text = he wished to be famous one day
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | day | famous *property* | tree rules |

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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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