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title: Who wrote those funny plays on the shelf? — Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who wrote those funny plays on the shelf? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 848 «Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his wooden Holger and tells of the Danish arms, while Holger dreams on» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his w…

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Who wrote those funny plays on the shelf?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** funny plays, shelf

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 848 «Andersen's Tales, Holger Danske: the carver finishes his wooden Holger and tells of the Danish arms, while Holger dreams on» 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/848-pg27200-part59/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t10:1
# text = Who wrote those funny plays on the shelf?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past |  | that funny plays |  | the shelf |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent play=Theme on shelf=Destination |

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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}

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Holberg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t10:o1:1
# text = Holberg
1	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t10:o2:1
# text = Hans
1	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bertel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t10:o3:1
# text = Bertel
1	Bertel	Bertel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Egede

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:848-pg27200-part59:t10:o4:1
# text = Egede
1	Egede	Egede	PROPN	NNP	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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