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title: so is the wife totally on the boys' side or nah? — Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb… · tree and pragmatics
description: so is the wife totally on the boys' side or nah? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1089 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre kills his own daughters by mistake and the boys flee» 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 4 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre…

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so is the wife totally on the boys' side or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** side

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1089 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre kills his own daughters by mistake and the boys flee» 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/1089-pg29021-part14/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1089-pg29021-part14:t4:1
# text = so is the wife totally on the boys' side or nah?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the wife |  |  | the boys's side |  | totally *property* | 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 {#o1}

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she mostly just did what her husband said

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1089-pg29021-part14:t4:o1:1
# text = she mostly just did what her husband said
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | she |  |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | her husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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

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kinda, she tried to help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1089-pg29021-part14:t4:o2:1
# text = kinda, she tried to help
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | she |  |  |  |  | kinda *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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kinda, she hid them under the bed first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1089-pg29021-part14:t4:o3:1
# text = kinda, she hid them under the bed first
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | she | them *= they* |  | the bed |  | first, kinda *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient under bed=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nope, she's on the Ogre's side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1089-pg29021-part14:t4:o4:1
# text = nope, she's on the Ogre's side
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | she |  |  | the Ogre's side |  |  | tree rules |

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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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