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title: the innkeeper's son wanted to marry Christina, right? where did he w… — Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christ… · tree and pragmatics
description: the innkeeper's son wanted to marry Christina, right? where did he work? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 850 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christina goes into service, and Ib cannot write to her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christ…

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the innkeeper's son wanted to marry Christina, right? where did he work?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** son · **What happens:** want, marry, work · **To what, where:** Christina

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 850 «Andersen's Tales, Ib and Little Christina, part 61: Christina goes into service, and Ib cannot write to her» 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/850-pg27200-part61/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:850-pg27200-part61:t7:1
# text = the innkeeper's son wanted to marry Christina, right? where did he work?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
8	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the innkeeper's son |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **marry** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* | Christina |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christina=Patient |
| 3 | **work** | past · do-support | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
an office in Copenhagen, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:850-pg27200-part61:t7:o1:1
# text = an office in Copenhagen, fr
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a shop in Aarhus, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:850-pg27200-part61:t7:o2:1
# text = a shop in Aarhus, fr
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Aarhus	Aarhus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in Herning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:850-pg27200-part61:t7:o3:1
# text = in Herning
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Herning	Herning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bank in Ringkobing, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:850-pg27200-part61:t7:o4:1
# text = a bank in Ringkobing, fr
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ringkobing	Ringkobing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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