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title: Ayy, the old lady kept them three girls spinning, but what stuff? — Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayy, the old lady kept them three girls spinning, but what stuff? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 6 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride…

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Ayy, the old lady kept them three girls spinning, but what stuff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ayy, three girls · **What happens:** keep, spin · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» 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/1454-pg503-part41/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t6:1
# text = Ayy, the old lady kept them three girls spinning, but what stuff?
1	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	parataxis	_	_
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Ayy | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme girl=Attribute |
| 2 | **spin** | gerund | three girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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Wool, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t6:o1:1
# text = Wool, bruv
1	Wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gold flax, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t6:o2:1
# text = Gold flax, bruv
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Linen, bruv, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t6:o3:1
# text = Linen, bruv, innit
1	Linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wool, proper, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1454-pg503-part41:t6:o4:1
# text = Wool, proper, bruv
1	Wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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