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title: why'd the husband take her by the hand? — Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: why'd the husband take her by the hand? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1546 «Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees death, but the voice still finds his family» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

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why'd the husband take her by the hand?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** her

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1546 «Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees death, but the voice still finds his family» 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/1546-pg540-part43/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t13:1
# text = why'd the husband take her by the hand?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | infinitive | the husband |  | her *= she* |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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to lead her to bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t13:o1:1
# text = to lead her to bed
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | to-infinitive |  | her *= she* |  | bed |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bed=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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to stop her running off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t13:o2:1
# text = to stop her running off
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to stop her running off to the door and out into the street

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t13:o3:1
# text = to stop her running off to the door and out into the street
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the door *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to comfort her in fear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t13:o4:1
# text = to comfort her in fear
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | to-infinitive |  | her *= she* |  | fear |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |

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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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