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title: Why did they hang the feather-beds, though? — The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did they hang the feather-beds, though? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1864 «The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King marries a sorrowful lady, and her ugly daughter starts trouble» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 3 · ★ · The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King ma…

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Why did they hang the feather-beds, though?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** hang · **To what, where:** feather beds

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1864 «The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1: a sad King marries a sorrowful lady, and her ugly daughter starts trouble» 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/1864-pg7277-part1/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1864-pg7277-part1:t3:1
# text = Why did they hang the feather-beds, though?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · do-support | they | the feather beds |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |

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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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To stop the noise in the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1864-pg7277-part1:t3:o1:1
# text = To stop the noise in the palace
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | the noise |  | the palace |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality noise=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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So he could sleep on them tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1864-pg7277-part1:t3:o2:1
# text = So he could sleep on them tonight
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | could | he |  |  |  | tonight | on them *= they* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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So he wouldn't bonk himself too hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1864-pg7277-part1:t3:o3:1
# text = So he wouldn't bonk himself too hard
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	bonk	bonk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bonk** | would | he | himself *= he* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To keep the draughts out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1864-pg7277-part1:t3:o4:1
# text = To keep the draughts out
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	draughts	draught	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep out** | to-infinitive |  | the draughts |  |  |  | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme |

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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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