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title: Wait, what did the elves want the skewer for? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the elves want the skewer for? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

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Wait, what did the elves want the skewer for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, elves · **What happens:** wait, want · **To what, where:** skewer

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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/989-pg27200-part200/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t12:1
# text = Wait, what did the elves want the skewer for?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	skewer	skewer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **want** | past · do-support | the elves | the skewer |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme skewer=Attribute |

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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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a ladder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t12:o1:1
# text = a ladder
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a tall maypole for their midsummer dance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t12:o2:1
# text = a tall maypole for their midsummer dance
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maypole	maypole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a maypole to dance around on the green at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t12:o3:1
# text = a maypole to dance around on the green at night
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maypole	maypole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	around	around	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance around** | to-infinitive | a maypole |  |  | the green | night | around *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on green=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a maypole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:t12:o4:1
# text = a maypole
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maypole	maypole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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