--- title: Was the wife actually sulky at the start? — Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the wife actually sulky at the start? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1100 «Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins back his sack and ram, and his rich brother buys them» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1100-pg29672-part6/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1100-pg29672-part6/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins… Was the wife actually sulky at the start? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** start This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1100 «Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins back his sack and ram, and his rich brother buys them» 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/1100-pg29672-part6/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1100-pg29672-part6:t13:1 # text = Was the wife actually sulky at the start? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 actually actually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the wife | | | the start | | actually, sulky *property* | tree rules | 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} yeah, she was dead grumpy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1100-pg29672-part6:t13:o1:1 # text = yeah, she was dead grumpy 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | she | | | | | grumpy *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} yeah, she was proper sulky and gave him the cold shoulder all day ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1100-pg29672-part6:t13:o2:1 # text = yeah, she was proper sulky and gave him the cold shoulder all day 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | she | | | | | sulky *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | past | she *not said here* | the cold shoulder | him *= he* | | day | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shoulder=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} yeah, she was proper sulky ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1100-pg29672-part6:t13:o3:1 # text = yeah, she was proper sulky 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | she | | | | | sulky *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} yeah, she was proper sulky, then the henchmen sorted her out. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1100-pg29672-part6:t13:o4:1 # text = yeah, she was proper sulky, then the henchmen sorted her out. 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 henchmen henchman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 sorted sort VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | she | | | | | sulky *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sort out** | past | the henchmen | her *= she* | | | then | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | **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. 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