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title: what was the wife's coat, was it proper posh? — Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the wife's coat, was it proper posh? Test 8 · ★ 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; Mo
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# Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

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what was the wife's coat, was it proper posh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** coat · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t8:1
# text = what was the wife's coat, was it proper posh?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the wife's coat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | posh *property* | tree rules |

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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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a fur coat she left behind on the hook by the door of the house

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t8:o1:1
# text = a fur coat she left behind on the hook by the door of the house
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave behind** | past | a fur coat |  |  | the hook |  | by the door of the house; behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on hook=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a wool shawl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t8:o2:1
# text = a wool shawl
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shawl	shawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fur coat she left behind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t8:o3:1
# text = a fur coat she left behind
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave behind** | past | she | a fur coat *not said here* |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a grey wool coat she wore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1546-pg540-part43:t8:o4:1
# text = a grey wool coat she wore
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | she | a grey wool coat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |

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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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