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title: Seriously, where did Great Claus go to sell the skins? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seriously, where did Great Claus go to sell the skins? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

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Seriously, where did Great Claus go to sell the skins?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Great Claus · **What happens:** go, sell · **To what, where:** skins

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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/869-pg27200-part80/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t11:1
# text = Seriously, where did Great Claus go to sell the skins?
1	Seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | Great Claus |  |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sell** | to-infinitive | Great Claus *not said here* | the skins |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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 {#o1}

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To the fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t11:o1:1
# text = To the fair
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	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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Down to the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t11:o2:1
# text = Down to the river
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To market

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t11:o3:1
# text = To market
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Into the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t11:o4:1
# text = Into the town
1	Into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	town	town	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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