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title: no cap, what does "hempen maid" mean in the story? — Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Fort… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, what does "hempen maid" mean in the story? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 103 «Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 6: the youth fights the cats and the wild bed in the castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear…

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no cap, what does "hempen maid" mean in the story?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** do, mean · **To what, where:** hempen maid

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 103 «Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 6: the youth fights the cats and the wild bed in the castle» 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/103-pg11027-part6/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:103-pg11027-part6:t13:1
# text = no cap, what does "hempen maid" mean in the story?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hempen	hempen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | no cap | hempen maid |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Eventuality |
| 2 | **mean** | present | no cap |  |  |  |  | in the story | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in story=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 {#o1}

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a wild wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:103-pg11027-part6:t13:o1:1
# text = a wild wind
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wind	wind	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 sad old woman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:103-pg11027-part6:t13:o2:1
# text = a sad old woman
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a lady of the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:103-pg11027-part6:t13:o3:1
# text = a lady of the castle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the hangman's rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:103-pg11027-part6:t13:o4:1
# text = the hangman's rope
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hangman	hangman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	rope	rope	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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