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title: so why did she offer the old lady her bacon? — Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fair… · tree and pragmatics
description: so why did she offer the old lady her bacon? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1328 «Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gifts, and she grows vain and sharp» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 12 · ★ · Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany thre…

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so why did she offer the old lady her bacon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** offer · **To what, where:** bacon, old lady

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1328 «Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gifts, and she grows vain and sharp» 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/1328-pg3454-part53/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1328-pg3454-part53:t12:1
# text = so why did she offer the old lady her bacon?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past · do-support | she | her bacon | the old lady |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent lady=Goal bacon=Theme |

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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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cos she was hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1328-pg3454-part53:t12:o1:1
# text = cos she was hungry
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she | cos *not said here* |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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cos she was full

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1328-pg3454-part53:t12:o2:1
# text = cos she was full
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she | cos *not said here* |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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cos she wanted to be kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1328-pg3454-part53:t12:o3:1
# text = cos she wanted to be kind
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | cos |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | cos *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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cos she felt bad for her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1328-pg3454-part53:t12:o4:1
# text = cos she felt bad for her
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | cos |  |  |  |  | for her *= she*; bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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