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title: What did the sexton's wife find him with, like? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could Bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the sexton's wife find him with, like? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a…

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What did the sexton's wife find him with, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** do, find · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» 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/102-pg11027-part5/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t10:1
# text = What did the sexton's wife find him with, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sexton	sexton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive | the sexton's wife | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a broke rib

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t10:o1:1
# text = a broke rib
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	broke	broke	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rib	rib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a cut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t10:o2:1
# text = a cut
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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two broke ribs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t10:o3:1
# text = two broke ribs
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	broke	broke	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bruise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t10:o4:1
# text = a bruise
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bruise	bruise	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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**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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