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title: Who'd ya say grabbed the wife, fam? — Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who'd ya say grabbed the wife, fam? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

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Who'd ya say grabbed the wife, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** say, grab · **To what, where:** grabbed wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» 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/1285-pg3454-part10/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t10:1
# text = Who'd ya say grabbed the wife, fam?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ya	ya	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the grabbed wife and fam |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
| 2 | **grab** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the fairies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t10:o1:1
# text = the fairies
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairies	fairy	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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the Dark Man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t10:o2:1
# text = the Dark Man
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the neighbour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t10:o3:1
# text = the neighbour
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the monks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:t10:o4:1
# text = the monks
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monks	monk	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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