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title: Was the old great-granny a total snoozer or helpful? — Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the old great-granny a total snoozer or helpful? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

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Was the old great-granny a total snoozer or helpful?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** old great granny

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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/1568-pg540-part65/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t13:1
# text = Was the old great-granny a total snoozer or helpful?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	csubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	snoozer	snoozer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the old great granny |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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wise and helpful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t13:o1:1
# text = wise and helpful
1	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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cold and grumpy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t13:o2:1
# text = cold and grumpy
1	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sleepy but kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t13:o3:1
# text = sleepy but kind
1	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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wise and helpful to everyone in the village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t13:o4:1
# text = wise and helpful to everyone in the village
1	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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