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title: what made the brothers want to go back home? — Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: what made the brothers want to go back home? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 941 «Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends leaves home and the word BELIEVE glows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends lea…

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what made the brothers want to go back home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** make, want, go back

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 941 «Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends leaves home and the word BELIEVE glows» 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/941-pg27200-part152/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t7:1
# text = what made the brothers want to go back home?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	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	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a green leaf from home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t7:o1:1
# text = a green leaf from home
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a gift from their father

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t7:o2:1
# text = a gift from their father
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a green leaf from home that fell on each of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t7:o3:1
# text = a green leaf from home that fell on each of them
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | a green leaf from home |  |  | each |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on each=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bird's song from home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:941-pg27200-part152:t7:o4:1
# text = a bird's song from home
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** |  | a bird |  |  | home |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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