--- title: the man's wife, is she mint or proper grim? — Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16… · tree and pragmatics description: the man's wife, is she mint or proper grim? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1519 «Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a man's ox with a shoe and a trick» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1519-pg540-part16/t8/) [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/) / [Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1519-pg540-part16/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a… the man's wife, is she mint or proper grim? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1519 «Norse Tales, The Master Thief, part 16: the youth steals a man's ox with a shoe and a trick» 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/1519-pg540-part16/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1519-pg540-part16:t8:1 # text = the man's wife, is she mint or proper grim? 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 mint mint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 grim grim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the man's wife | | | | | mint *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the man's wife *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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} mint, she's kind ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1519-pg540-part16:t8:o1:1 # text = mint, she's kind 1 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | mint | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} alright, she's quiet and kind ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1519-pg540-part16:t8:o2:1 # text = alright, she's quiet and kind 1 alright alright INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | she | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | she *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} proper grim, she batters him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1519-pg540-part16:t8:o3:1 # text = proper grim, she batters him 1 proper properly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 grim grim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 batters batter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **batter** | present | she | him *= he* | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | ### Option 4 {#o4} grim ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1519-pg540-part16:t8:o4:1 # text = grim 1 grim grim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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