--- title: what did the old man want to stop? — Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the G… · tree and pragmatics description: what did the old man want to stop? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1490-pg503-part77/t11/) [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/) / [Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the G…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1490-pg503-part77/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t… what did the old man want to stop? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** want, stop This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» 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/1490-pg503-part77/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t11:1 # text = what did the old man want to stop? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past · do-support | the old man | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 {#o1} the noise ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t11:o1:1 # text = the noise 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the thieves ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t11:o2:1 # text = the thieves 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 thieves thief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} losing his meadow grass each summer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t11:o3:1 # text = losing his meadow grass each summer 1 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | gerund | | his meadow grass | | | summer | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Eventuality | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} losing his whole crop every year ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1490-pg503-part77:t11:o4:1 # text = losing his whole crop every year 1 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 crop crop NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | gerund | | his whole crop | | | year | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Eventuality | **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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