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title: Was the Countess sus or actually kind to peasants? — Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the Countess sus or actually kind to peasants? Test 7 · ★ 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 questi
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

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Was the Countess sus or actually kind to peasants?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Countess sus

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t7:1
# text = Was the Countess sus or actually kind to peasants?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Countess sus |  |  |  |  | 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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cold and proud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t7:o1:1
# text = cold and proud
1	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	proud	proud	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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a sus snob who only cared about her own rich guests at the castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t7:o2:1
# text = a sus snob who only cared about her own rich guests at the castle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	snob	snob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | past | a sus snob |  |  | the castle |  | about her own rich guests | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about guest=Stimulus |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
kind, real sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t7:o3:1
# text = kind, real sweet
1	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
kind and really sweet to every poor peasant in the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t7:o4:1
# text = kind and really sweet to every poor peasant in the land
1	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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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