--- title: Sus, did the King try to keep her hands or let her go? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furr… · tree and pragmatics description: Sus, did the King try to keep her hands or let her go? Test 9 · ★ 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; Mova's ch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1924-pg7277-part61/t9/) [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/) / [Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1924-pg7277-part61/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the rin… Sus, did the King try to keep her hands or let her go? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sus · **What happens:** do, keep, let, go · **To what, where:** King try, hands, Sus This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t9:1 # text = Sus, did the King try to keep her hands or let her go? 1 Sus sus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Sus | the King try | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Eventuality | | 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Sus *not said here* | Sus's hands | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | Sus *not said here* | Sus | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | Sus *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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} He tried to drag her away ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t9:o1:1 # text = He tried to drag her away 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | He | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **drag away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | her *= she* | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} He let her go ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t9:o2:1 # text = He let her go 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | He | her *= she* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} He let her go and bowed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t9:o3:1 # text = He let her go and bowed 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 bowed bow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | He | her *= she* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bow** | participle | He *not said here* | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} He wanted to keep her hands in his ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t9:o4:1 # text = He wanted to keep her hands in his 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | He | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | her hands | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hand=Theme his=Attribute | **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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