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title: Wait, which stick had the three red feet, mate? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, which stick had the three red feet, mate? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 874 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the flowers dance at night while Sophy the doll gives up her bed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the…

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Wait, which stick had the three red feet, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, stick · **What happens:** wait, have · **To what, where:** three red feet

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 874 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Ida's Flowers, part 85: the flowers dance at night while Sophy the doll gives up her bed» 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/874-pg27200-part85/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t3:1
# text = Wait, which stick had the three red feet, mate?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **have** | past | which stick | the three red feet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |

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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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the carnival rod with the three red feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t3:o1:1
# text = the carnival rod with the three red feet
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	carnival	carnival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the wooden drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t3:o2:1
# text = the wooden drum
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drum	drum	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 -->
the paper doll

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t3:o3:1
# text = the paper doll
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the carnival rod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:874-pg27200-part85:t3:o4:1
# text = the carnival rod
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	carnival	carnival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rod	rod	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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