--- title: State the reason Hannah resolved to consult her husband on the matter. — Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, p… · tree and pragmatics description: State the reason Hannah resolved to consult her husband on the matter. Exam question 3 of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1790-pg641-part41/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/) / [Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1790-pg641-part41/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls… State the reason Hannah resolved to consult her husband on the matter. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** State · **What happens:** resolve, consult · **To what, where:** husband, matter This is exam question 3 of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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/1790-pg641-part41/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:e3:1 # text = State the reason Hannah resolved to consult her husband on the matter. 1 State state NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 Hannah Hannah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 consult consult VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **resolve** | past | State the reason | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **consult** | to-infinitive | State the reason *not said here* | State's husband | | the matter | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | 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} the matter was so odd ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:e3:o1:1 # text = the matter was so odd 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the matter | | | | | odd *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the story was so strange ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:e3:o2:1 # text = the story was so strange 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the story | | | | | strange *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} the tale of the boy was so strange she could not sleep ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:e3:o3:1 # text = the tale of the boy was so strange she could not sleep 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the tale of the boy | | | | | strange *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **sleep** | could | she | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** | | the boy | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} the story was so very strange and unlikely ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1790-pg641-part41:e3:o4:1 # text = the story was so very strange and unlikely 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 unlikely unlikely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the story | | | | | strange *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the story *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | **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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