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title: Hella, what did the old lady wear? — Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hella, what did the old lady wear? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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 8 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

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Hella, what did the old lady wear?

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

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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/1521-pg540-part18/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t8:1
# text = Hella, what did the old lady wear?
1	Hella	Hella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Hella | the old lady wear |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wear=Eventuality |

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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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a ragged gown with a torn jerkin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t8:o1:1
# text = a ragged gown with a torn jerkin
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	jerkin	jerkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a ragged cape

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t8:o2:1
# text = a ragged cape
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a ragged gown and an old wig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t8:o3:1
# text = a ragged gown and an old wig
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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a ragged gown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1521-pg540-part18:t8:o4:1
# text = a ragged gown
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gown	gown	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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