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title: yo, what did Ole call himself to the old portrait? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: O… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, what did Ole call himself to the old portrait? Test 12 · ★ 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 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

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yo, what did Ole call himself to the old portrait?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** himself, old portrait · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t12:1
# text = yo, what did Ole call himself to the old portrait?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	Ole	ole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | infinitive |  | himself *= he* | the old portrait |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Topic to portrait=Recipient |

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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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a wise old fellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t12:o1:1
# text = a wise old fellow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a ghost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t12:o2:1
# text = a ghost
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a heathen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t12:o3:1
# text = a heathen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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an ancient heathen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:928-pg27200-part139:t12:o4:1
# text = an ancient heathen
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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