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title: haha, what did the goblins wave around in the fields? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: haha, what did the goblins wave around in the fields? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 894 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga is freed and finds her mother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga i…

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haha, what did the goblins wave around in the fields?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** goblins · **What happens:** do, wave around

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 894 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter: Helga is freed and finds her mother» 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/894-pg27200-part105/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:894-pg27200-part105:t7:1
# text = haha, what did the goblins wave around in the fields?
1	haha	haha	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wave	wave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wave around** | present | the goblins |  |  |  |  | in the fields; around *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=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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red and white lanterns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:894-pg27200-part105:t7:o1:1
# text = red and white lanterns
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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torches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:894-pg27200-part105:t7:o2:1
# text = torches
1	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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blue red and green torches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:894-pg27200-part105:t7:o3:1
# text = blue red and green torches
1	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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golden candles and bells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:894-pg27200-part105:t7:o4:1
# text = golden candles and bells
1	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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