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title: what was the old wife so hooked on that she forgot everything else? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut S… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the old wife so hooked on that she forgot everything else? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1344 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the greedy old wife opens the big box and finds demons» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 14 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the…

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what was the old wife so hooked on that she forgot everything else?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old wife, wife · **What happens:** be, hook, forget · **To what, where:** old wife, everything

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1344 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, part 4: the greedy old wife opens the big box and finds demons» 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/1344-pg4018-part4/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t14:1
# text = what was the old wife so hooked on that she forgot everything else?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hooked	hook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	obj	_	_
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the old wife |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hook** | participle |  | the old wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** | past | wife | everything |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the big box and all the stuff in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t14:o1:1
# text = the big box and all the stuff in it
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the shiny box and its coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t14:o2:1
# text = the shiny box and its coins
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coin** |  | its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the sparrow and her own kids

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t14:o3:1
# text = the sparrow and her own kids
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
her husband

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1344-pg4018-part4:t14:o4:1
# text = her husband
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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