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title: yo, what did Helga pray for? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, what did Helga pray for? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

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yo, what did Helga pray for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Helga · **What happens:** pray

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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/897-pg27200-part108/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t12:1
# text = yo, what did Helga pray for?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past · do-support | Helga |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a quick peek at heaven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t12:o1:1
# text = a quick peek at heaven
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	peek	peek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a peek

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t12:o2:1
# text = a peek
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peek	peek	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 -->
heaven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t12:o3:1
# text = heaven
1	heaven	heaven	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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a glance at the lamps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t12:o4:1
# text = a glance at the lamps
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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