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title: Why'd the lady in the green house give a nut? — Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why'd the lady in the green house give a nut? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1707 «Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her prince and becomes queen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron
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# Test 4 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her p…

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Why'd the lady in the green house give a nut?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** nut

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1707 «Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her prince and becomes queen» 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/1707-pg640-part31/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1707-pg640-part31:t4:1
# text = Why'd the lady in the green house give a nut?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | the lady in the green house | a nut |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To keep her safe from the dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1707-pg640-part31:t4:o1:1
# text = To keep her safe from the dog
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  | her *= she* |  |  | from the dog; safe *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary from dog=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Only to open when it's urgent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1707-pg640-part31:t4:o2:1
# text = Only to open when it's urgent
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | urgent *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only to open when it's urgent, otherwise it's bad luck for ages

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1707-pg640-part31:t4:o3:1
# text = Only to open when it's urgent, otherwise it's bad luck for ages
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | urgent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | it | bad luck |  |  | for ages | otherwise *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only to open when it's really urgent, cos she said so twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1707-pg640-part31:t4:o4:1
# text = Only to open when it's really urgent, cos she said so twice
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | urgent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | she |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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