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title: Mate, did the woodman give the Musician a dead good thank-you? — Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, did the woodman give the Musician a dead good thank-you? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1583 «Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician's last trick, then Sigurd's birth and Regin's tale of the gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 4 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mate, did the woodman give the Musician a dead good thank-you?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** woodman · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Musician

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1583 «Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician's last trick, then Sigurd's birth and Regin's tale of the gold» 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/1583-pg540-part80/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:t4:1
# text = Mate, did the woodman give the Musician a dead good thank-you?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woodman	woodman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Musician	musician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	thank	thank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | the woodman | the Musician |  |  |  | Mate *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He stood up for him, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:t4:o1:1
# text = He stood up for him, proper
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | He |  |  |  |  | for him *= he* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He stood by him, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:t4:o2:1
# text = He stood by him, proper
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | He |  |  |  |  | by him *= he*; proper *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He raised his axe and stood guard in front of him, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:t4:o3:1
# text = He raised his axe and stood guard in front of him, proper
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | He | his axe |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | He *not said here* | guard |  | front of him |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme in front=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He stood up for him and gave him a huge reward, proper, innit

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:t4:o4:1
# text = He stood up for him and gave him a huge reward, proper, innit
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | He |  |  |  |  | for him *= he* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | He *not said here* | a huge reward | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reward=Theme |

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