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title: Safe, what did the wood-cutter's wife shout when she ran off? — Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Safe, what did the wood-cutter's wife shout when she ran off? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1234 «Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lies in bed while his mules bring home gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 10 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Safe, what did the wood-cutter's wife shout when she ran off?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** do, shout, run off · **To what, where:** wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1234 «Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lies in bed while his mules bring home gold» 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/1234-pg3282-part35/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1234-pg3282-part35:t10:1
# text = Safe, what did the wood-cutter's wife shout when she ran off?
1	Safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cutter	cutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the wood cutter's wife |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **run off** | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Look at the gold!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1234-pg3282-part35:t10:o1:1
# text = Look at the gold!
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the gold | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gold=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Get up, get up!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1234-pg3282-part35:t10:o2:1
# text = Get up, get up!
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **get up** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Husband, come quick!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1234-pg3282-part35:t10:o3:1
# text = Husband, come quick!
1	Husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | Husband |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wake up, husband, the mules are back!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1234-pg3282-part35:t10:o4:1
# text = Wake up, husband, the mules are back!
1	Wake	wake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | husband *vocative* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the mules |  |  |  |  | back *property* | 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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