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title: Mate, her poor feet are a mess, all torn and bleeding and that. Wild… — Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, her poor feet are a mess, all torn and bleeding and that. Wild, but she still keeps on going. Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1529 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess struggles across deserts and mountains to the Sun's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dep
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# Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess str…

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Mate, her poor feet are a mess, all torn and bleeding and that. Wild, but she still keeps on going.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** poor feet, mess, she · **What happens:** be, tear, bleed, keep, go · **To what, where:** mess, all, that

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1529 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess struggles across deserts and mountains to the Sun's palace» 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/1529-pg540-part26/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mate, her poor feet are a mess, all torn and bleeding and that.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t4:1
# text = Mate, her poor feet are a mess, all torn and bleeding and that.
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | her poor feet | a mess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tear** | participle · passive | a mess *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **bleed** | gerund | a mess *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Wild, but she still keeps on going.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t4:2
# text = Wild, but she still keeps on going.
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | she |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yeah, she is tough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t4:o1:1
# text = Yeah, she is tough
1	Yeah	yeah	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	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | she |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she keeps on going anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t4:o2:1
# text = Yeah, she keeps on going anyway
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | she |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she's tough and doesn't give up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah, she's tough and doesn't give up
1	Yeah	yeah	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	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | she |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **give up** | present · do-support | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she's sore but still walking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1529-pg540-part26:t4:o4:1
# text = Yeah, she's sore but still walking
1	Yeah	yeah	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	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | she |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | she *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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