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title: lol the grocer's wife could talk and nod, which one was she better at? — Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol the grocer's wife could talk and nod, which one was she better at? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1614 «Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin borrows a tongue and saves a book from fire» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin bo…

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lol the grocer's wife could talk and nod, which one was she better at?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** talk, be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1614 «Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin borrows a tongue and saves a book from fire» 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/1614-pg5615-part3/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1614-pg5615-part3:t12:1
# text = lol the grocer's wife could talk and nod, which one was she better at?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grocer	grocer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nod	nod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	nmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | could | the grocer's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | well *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 {#o1}

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nodding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1614-pg5615-part3:t12:o1:1
# text = nodding
1	nodding	nod	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nod** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1614-pg5615-part3:t12:o2:1
# text = both
1	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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nod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1614-pg5615-part3:t12:o3:1
# text = nod
1	nod	nod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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talking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1614-pg5615-part3:t12:o4:1
# text = talking
1	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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