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title: no cap, how did Hjalmar get small enough for the mouse hole? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, how did Hjalmar get small enough for the mouse hole? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 927 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sails with Ole, rescues a tired stork, and rides to a mouse wedding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sai…

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no cap, how did Hjalmar get small enough for the mouse hole?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 927 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sails with Ole, rescues a tired stork, and rides to a mouse wedding» 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/927-pg27200-part138/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:t4:1
# text = no cap, how did Hjalmar get small enough for the mouse hole?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | Hjalmar |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 touch of the magic wand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:t4:o1:1
# text = a touch of the magic wand
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** |  |  | the magic wand |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sprinkle of the silver dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:t4:o2:1
# text = a sprinkle of the silver dust
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sprinkle	sprinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** |  | the silver dust |  |  |  |  |  | nom sprinkle «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a magic kiss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:t4:o3:1
# text = a magic kiss
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	kiss	kiss	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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he drank a potion from a tiny glass bottle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:927-pg27200-part138:t4:o4:1
# text = he drank a potion from a tiny glass bottle
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | he | a potion |  | a tiny glass bottle |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Patient |

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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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