--- title: Why did the old lady want the carriage all shut up, mate? — Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beaut… · tree and pragmatics description: Why did the old lady want the carriage all shut up, mate? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1640-pg5615-part29/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beaut…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1640-pg5615-part29/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: t… Why did the old lady want the carriage all shut up, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old lady · **What happens:** want, shut up · **To what, where:** carriage This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» 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/1640-pg5615-part29/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t13:1 # text = Why did the old lady want the carriage all shut up, mate? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 all all ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past · do-support | the old lady | the carriage | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot carriage=Theme | | 2 | **shut up** | participle | | | | | | mate *vocative*; all *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} She is shy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t13:o1:1 # text = She is shy 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | She | | | | | shy *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} She hides her old face ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t13:o2:1 # text = She hides her old face 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | She | her old face | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} No light on her face ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t13:o3:1 # text = No light on her face 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Modesty ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t13:o4:1 # text = Modesty 1 Modesty modesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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