--- title: Mate, why did the wife greet when her man turned up? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul,… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, why did the wife greet when her man turned up? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1290-pg3454-part15/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1290-pg3454-part15/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re… Mate, why did the wife greet when her man turned up? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wife, man · **What happens:** greet, turn up This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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/1290-pg3454-part15/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t8:1 # text = Mate, why did the wife greet when her man turned up? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 greet greet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past · do-support | the wife | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **turn up** | past | wife's man | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} she was frightened ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t8:o1:1 # text = she was frightened 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | past · passive | | she | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ### Option 2 {#o2} she was happy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t8:o2:1 # text = she was happy 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | she | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} she was frightened of the giant's return ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t8:o3:1 # text = she was frightened of the giant's return 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | past · passive | | she | | | | of the giant's return | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **return** | | the giant | | | | | | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} she was frightened that he had been killed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t8:o4:1 # text = she was frightened that he had been killed 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | past · passive | | she | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive | | he | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | **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. 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