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title: wait, what's the dog's name when he was a little pup? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man,… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what's the dog's name when he was a little pup? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

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wait, what's the dog's name when he was a little pup?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dog · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** name, little pup

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» 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/977-pg27200-part188/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t3:1
# text = wait, what's the dog's name when he was a little pup?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pup	pup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the dog's name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | dog | a little pup |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Tomi, sweet Tomi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t3:o1:1
# text = Tomi, sweet Tomi
1	Tomi	Tomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Tomi	Tomi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Ami, sweet Ami

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t3:o2:1
# text = Ami, sweet Ami
1	Ami	Ami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Ami	Ami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rico, little Rico

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t3:o3:1
# text = Rico, little Rico
1	Rico	Rico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Rico	Rico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bo, sweet Bo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t3:o4:1
# text = Bo, sweet Bo
1	Bo	Bo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Bo	Bo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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