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title: Init, why couldn't she take the dress off after the third feast? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Init, why couldn't she take the dress off after the third feast? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1924 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the ring, the reel and the wedding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the rin…

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Init, why couldn't she take the dress off after the third feast?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Init · **What happens:** not take off · **To what, where:** dress

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1924 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the ring, the reel and the wedding» 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/1924-pg7277-part61/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t5:1
# text = Init, why couldn't she take the dress off after the third feast?
1	Init	Init	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take off** | could | Init | the dress |  |  | after the third feast | Init *vocative* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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 {#o1}

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She had lost the golden key

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t5:o1:1
# text = She had lost the golden key
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect | She | the golden key |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The dress was stuck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t5:o2:1
# text = The dress was stuck
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dress |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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She stayed past the half-hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t5:o3:1
# text = She stayed past the half-hour
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	past	past	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | She |  |  |  | hour |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The King had locked the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t5:o4:1
# text = The King had locked the door
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | past · perfect | the King | the door |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

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