--- title: Who was left in charge of the horse while the father went home? — Household Tales, The Twins and the Wit… · tree and pragmatics description: Who was left in charge of the horse while the father went home? Exam question 3 of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1727-pg640-part51/e3/) [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/) / [Household Tales, The Twins and the Wit…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1727-pg640-part51/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle… Who was left in charge of the horse while the father went home? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** father · **What happens:** leave, go, charge · **To what, where:** charge, horse This is exam question 3 of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1727-pg640-part51/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e3:1 # text = Who was left in charge of the horse while the father went home? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 13 home home ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · passive | | | | charge of the horse | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in charge=Location | | 2 | **go** | past | the father | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **charge** | | | the horse | | | | | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient | 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} The Hazel-nut child ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e3:o1:1 # text = The Hazel-nut child 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 Hazel hazel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} The eldest brother ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e3:o2:1 # text = The eldest brother 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The step-mother ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e3:o3:1 # text = The step-mother 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The village boy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:e3:o4:1 # text = The village boy 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 boy boy 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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