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title: Mate, what did she bring back from the yarn job, a web or a mess? — Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the g… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did she bring back from the yarn job, a web or a mess? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1152 «Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's casket burns the cottage down» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 10 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's…

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Mate, what did she bring back from the yarn job, a web or a mess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** bring back · **To what, where:** yarn job

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1152 «Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's casket burns the cottage down» 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/1152-pg3027-part18/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t10:1
# text = Mate, what did she bring back from the yarn job, a web or a mess?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | past · do-support | she |  |  | the yarn job and a web or a mess |  | Mate *vocative* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent what=Theme from job=Initial\_Location |

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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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an armful of soft cotton

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t10:o1:1
# text = an armful of soft cotton
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	armful	armful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a mess of tangled wool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t10:o2:1
# text = a mess of tangled wool
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mess** |  |  | tangled wool |  |  |  |  | nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a basket of clean linen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t10:o3:1
# text = a basket of clean linen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a mess of tangled wool and burnt thread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t10:o4:1
# text = a mess of tangled wool and burnt thread
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mess** |  |  | tangled wool and burnt thread |  |  |  |  | nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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