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title: Wait, what did the gypsy lady give Ib? — Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the gypsy lady give Ib? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost i…

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Wait, what did the gypsy lady give Ib?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, gypsy lady · **What happens:** wait, give · **To what, where:** Ib

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 849 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 60: lost in the forest, the children meet a gypsy with wishing nuts» 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/849-pg27200-part60/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t8:1
# text = Wait, what did the gypsy lady give Ib?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	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 | **give** | past · do-support | the gypsy lady |  | Ib |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ib=Recipient what=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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three wishing nuts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t8:o1:1
# text = three wishing nuts
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	wishing	wishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nuts	nut	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 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a wooden stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t8:o2:1
# text = a wooden stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stick	stick	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 -->
three hazel branches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t8:o3:1
# text = three hazel branches
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a knotted green stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:849-pg27200-part60:t8:o4:1
# text = a knotted green stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	knotted	knot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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