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title: lol, what did the toad go off to fetch? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol, what did the toad go off to fetch? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…

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lol, what did the toad go off to fetch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, go off, fetch · **To what, where:** toad

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» 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/882-pg27200-part93/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t13:1
# text = lol, what did the toad go off to fetch?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the toad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go off** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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 {#o1}

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The pretty bed of walnut shell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t13:o1:1
# text = The pretty bed of walnut shell
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	walnut	walnut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The pretty bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t13:o2:1
# text = The pretty bed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The soft leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t13:o3:1
# text = The soft leaf
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	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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The silver boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:882-pg27200-part93:t13:o4:1
# text = The silver boat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boat	boat	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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