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title: Was the wife proper greedy or just skint? — Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the wife proper greedy or just skint? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1306 «Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the greedy wife sues to win the unfinished houses» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 5 · ★ · Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the g…

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Was the wife proper greedy or just skint?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1306 «Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the greedy wife sues to win the unfinished houses» 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/1306-pg3454-part31/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:t5:1
# text = Was the wife proper greedy or just skint?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wife |  |  |  |  | greedy, properly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Mostly kind but a bit skint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:t5:o1:1
# text = Mostly kind but a bit skint
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Proper greedy, always wanting more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:t5:o2:1
# text = Proper greedy, always wanting more
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | gerund |  | more |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Just skint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:t5:o3:1
# text = Just skint
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Just poor and struggling hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1306-pg3454-part31:t5:o4:1
# text = Just poor and struggling hard
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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