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title: Why'd she not wanna marry the Count, tho? — Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why'd she not wanna marry the Count, tho? Test 9 · ★ 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 question and of
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

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Why'd she not wanna marry the Count, tho?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** not marry · **To what, where:** Count

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t9:1
# text = Why'd she not wanna marry the Count, tho?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	wanna	wanna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	tho	tho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **marry** | would | she | the Count and tho |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Patient |

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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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the Countess helped her mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t9:o1:1
# text = the Countess helped her mum
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Countess	Countess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | the Countess |  | Countess's mum |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Guilbert was her guy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t9:o2:1
# text = Guilbert was her guy
1	Guilbert	Guilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Guilbert | Guilbert's guy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she already had a boyfriend, Guilbert, the wood-cutter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t9:o3:1
# text = she already had a boyfriend, Guilbert, the wood-cutter
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	already	already	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boyfriend	boyfriend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Guilbert	Guilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	cutter	cutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | she | a boyfriend |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boyfriend=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the Count was way too old and the Countess forbade it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t9:o4:1
# text = the Count was way too old and the Countess forbade it
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Countess	Countess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	forbade	forbid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Count |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **forbid** | past | the Countess | way |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=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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