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title: what did the doll Bertha say she hated doing? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: O… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the doll Bertha say she hated doing? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

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what did the doll Bertha say she hated doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bertha · **What happens:** do, say, hate · **To what, where:** doll · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» 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/928-pg27200-part139/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t10:1
# text = what did the doll Bertha say she hated doing?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	Bertha	Bertha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the doll |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Bertha | the doll *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hate** | past | Bertha |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | gerund | Bertha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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going over mountains in the cold, with no coat or warm shoes at all

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t10:o1:1
# text = going over mountains in the cold, with no coat or warm shoes at all
1	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | mountains |  | in the cold; with no coat or warm shoes; at all | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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walking in the rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t10:o2:1
# text = walking in the rain
1	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | the rain |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Trajectory |

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

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going over mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t10:o3:1
# text = going over mountains
1	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | mountains |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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going over mountains and across the high bridges of the northern valleys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t10:o4:1
# text = going over mountains and across the high bridges of the northern valleys
1	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | mountains and the high bridges of the northern valleys |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Initial\_Location |

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