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title: why'd the girl keep quiet with the old lady, was she scared of getti… — pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: why'd the girl keep quiet with the old lady, was she scared of getting her mates in trouble? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 11 · ★ · pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes…

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why'd the girl keep quiet with the old lady, was she scared of getting her mates in trouble?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** keep, be, get · **To what, where:** mates, trouble

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» 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/1151-pg3027-part17/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:t11:1
# text = why'd the girl keep quiet with the old lady, was she scared of getting her mates in trouble?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | infinitive | the girl |  |  |  |  | with the old lady; quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | girl *not said here* | girl's mates |  | trouble |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mate=Stimulus |

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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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yes, the sparrows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:t11:o1:1
# text = yes, the sparrows
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yes, the kittens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:t11:o2:1
# text = yes, the kittens
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kittens	kitten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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yes, cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:t11:o3:1
# text = yes, cats
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cats	cat	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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no, the neighbours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1151-pg3027-part17:t11:o4:1
# text = no, the neighbours
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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