--- title: Dead quick, what was Percinet's gift meant to help with? — Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percin… · tree and pragmatics description: Dead quick, what was Percinet's gift meant to help with? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1541-pg540-part38/t14/) [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/) / [Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1541-pg540-part38/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc… Dead quick, what was Percinet's gift meant to help with? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quick gift · **What happens:** be, mean, help · **To what, where:** quick gift This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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/1541-pg540-part38/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t14:1 # text = Dead quick, what was Percinet's gift meant to help with? 1 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 Percinet Percinet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | Percinet's quick gift | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | past | Percinet's quick gift | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Percinet's quick gift *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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 wedding ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t14:o1:1 # text = the wedding 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} her difficulties ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t14:o2:1 # text = her difficulties 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 difficulties difficulty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} her bad dreams ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t14:o3:1 # text = her bad dreams 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dream** | | her *= she* | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} her troubles ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1541-pg540-part38:t14:o4:1 # text = her troubles 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 troubles trouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trouble** | | her *= she* | | | | | | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | **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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