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title: bro, what did the shadow threaten to do if the learned man talked? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what did the shadow threaten to do if the learned man talked? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 973 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the princess, the learned man is executed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the pr…

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bro, what did the shadow threaten to do if the learned man talked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** shadow, learned man · **What happens:** threaten, do, learn, talk

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 973 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the princess, the learned man is executed» 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/973-pg27200-part184/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:973-pg27200-part184:t2:1
# text = bro, what did the shadow threaten to do if the learned man talked?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	talked	talk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | past · do-support | the shadow |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the shadow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **talk** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | the learned man |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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 {#o1}

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Jail him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:973-pg27200-part184:t2:o1:1
# text = Jail him
1	Jail	jail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jail** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Have him hanged at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:973-pg27200-part184:t2:o2:1
# text = Have him hanged at dawn
1	Have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hange** | participle | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  | dawn |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ruin him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:973-pg27200-part184:t2:o3:1
# text = Ruin him
1	Ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ruin** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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

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Get him sent to prison

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:973-pg27200-part184:t2:o4:1
# text = Get him sent to prison
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | participle | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  | prison |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to prison=Destination |

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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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