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title: How did she get to the lady's house, dead comfy? — Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did she get to the lady's house, dead comfy? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1768 «Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the swallow and the secret princess; a new tale begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the sw…

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How did she get to the lady's house, dead comfy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** get

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1768 «Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the swallow and the secret princess; a new tale begins» 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/1768-pg641-part19/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1768-pg641-part19:t8:1
# text = How did she get to the lady's house, dead comfy?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	comfy	comfy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | she |  |  |  |  | to the lady's house *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |

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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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Walking behind the carriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1768-pg641-part19:t8:o1:1
# text = Walking behind the carriage
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | the carriage |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind carriage=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Riding on the back step

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1768-pg641-part19:t8:o2:1
# text = Riding on the back step
1	Riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on the back step | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sitting up front on the driver's box with a blanket wrapped round her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1768-pg641-part19:t8:o3:1
# text = Sitting up front on the driver's box with a blanket wrapped round her
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | gerund |  | front |  | the driver's box |  | with a blanket | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on box=Location |
| 2 | **wrap** | participle |  | a blanket *not said here* |  |  |  | round driver | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round she=Destination |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Sat next to the coachman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1768-pg641-part19:t8:o4:1
# text = Sat next to the coachman
1	Sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	next	next	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the coachman; next *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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