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title: Did Else fancy Jurgen or Martin? — Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Else fancy Jurgen or Martin? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 8 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

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Did Else fancy Jurgen or Martin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** fancy · **To what, where:** Jurgen

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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/965-pg27200-part176/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t8:1
# text = Did Else fancy Jurgen or Martin?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Else	else	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | past · do-support |  | Jurgen or Martin |  |  |  | else *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jurgen=Stimulus |

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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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Martin, he's her friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t8:o1:1
# text = Martin, he's her friend
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Martin | her friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Jurgen, because Martin was always rude to her and mean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t8:o2:1
# text = Jurgen, because Martin was always rude to her and mean
1	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
4	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jurgen because Martin |  | Martin |  |  | always, rude *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Jurgen because Martin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Neither, she liked the old fisherman much more than both boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t8:o3:1
# text = Neither, she liked the old fisherman much more than both boys
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | she | the old fisherman |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fisherman=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Martin, she's his girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t8:o4:1
# text = Martin, she's his girl
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Martin | his girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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