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title: Dude, what did the puppet man actually wish for? — Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did the puppet man actually wish for? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

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Dude, what did the puppet man actually wish for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** man · **To what, where:** wish

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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/955-pg27200-part166/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t5:1
# text = Dude, what did the puppet man actually wish for?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	puppet	puppet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **man** | past · do-support | Dude | wish |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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To sail off on a big ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t5:o1:1
# text = To sail off on a big ship
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sail	sail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail off** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a big ship |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To marry some minted widow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t5:o2:1
# text = To marry some minted widow
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	minted	mint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | to-infinitive |  | some minted widow |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Patient |
| 2 | **mint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To get a massive mansion by the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t5:o3:1
# text = To get a massive mansion by the sea
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | a massive mansion |  |  |  | by the sea | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mansion=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To make his dolls come alive as actors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t5:o4:1
# text = To make his dolls come alive as actors
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | his dolls |  |  |  |  | as actors; alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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