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title: what did the mum save her coins up for, like? — The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the mum save her coins up for, like? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 3 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what did the mum save her coins up for, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** save up, coin · **To what, where:** coins

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» 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/1276-pg3454-part1/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t3:1
# text = what did the mum save her coins up for, like?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save up** | past · do-support | the mum | mum's coins |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary coin=Theme |
| 2 | **coin** |  | mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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School, so he could learn proper stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t3:o1:1
# text = School, so he could learn proper stuff
1	School	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | could | he | proper stuff |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A ticket to go over the sea and find his dad who went off to war

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t3:o2:1
# text = A ticket to go over the sea and find his dad who went off to war
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over sea=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | his dad |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=Topic |
| 3 | **go off** | past | his dad |  |  |  |  | to war | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A cow and some land for the farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t3:o3:1
# text = A cow and some land for the farm
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A fancy house in the posh bit of town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1276-pg3454-part1:t3:o4:1
# text = A fancy house in the posh bit of town
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

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