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title: wait, what did the robbers grab the horse by? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what did the robbers grab the horse by? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

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wait, what did the robbers grab the horse by?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, robbers · **What happens:** wait, grab · **To what, where:** horse

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» 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/893-pg27200-part104/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t3:1
# text = wait, what did the robbers grab the horse by?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grab	grab	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **grab** | present | the robbers | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary horse=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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its harness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t3:o1:1
# text = its harness
1	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
its tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t3:o2:1
# text = its tail
1	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
its bridle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t3:o3:1
# text = its bridle
1	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bridle	bridle	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 long leather reins and the saddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:893-pg27200-part104:t3:o4:1
# text = the long leather reins and the saddle
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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