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title: be real, what did the wife wish for? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: be real, what did the wife wish for? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

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be real, what did the wife wish for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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/888-pg27200-part99/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t9:1
# text = be real, what did the wife wish for?
1	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

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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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a tiny baby to raise as her own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t9:o1:1
# text = a tiny baby to raise as her own
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as her own | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a child to hold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t9:o2:1
# text = a child to hold
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a little one to hold in the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t9:o3:1
# text = a little one to hold in the castle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a little one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:888-pg27200-part99:t9:o4:1
# text = a little one
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	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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