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title: Sick, what did the widow do when he proposed? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, what did the widow do when he proposed? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

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Sick, what did the widow do when he proposed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** widow · **What happens:** sick, do, propose · **To what, where:** widow

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» 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/1278-pg3454-part3/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t12:1
# text = Sick, what did the widow do when he proposed?
1	Sick	sick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	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	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sick** | infinitive | widow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the widow |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Eventuality |
| 3 | **propose** | present · do-support | widow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 {#o1}

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shrank back in horror and fled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t12:o1:1
# text = shrank back in horror and fled
1	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink back** | past |  |  |  | horror |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **flee** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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turned away in fear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t12:o2:1
# text = turned away in fear
1	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | past |  |  |  | fear |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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shrank back in horror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t12:o3:1
# text = shrank back in horror
1	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink back** | past |  |  |  | horror |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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shrank back in fear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1278-pg3454-part3:t12:o4:1
# text = shrank back in fear
1	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink back** | past |  |  |  | fear |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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