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title: Mate, what was the fisher's wife always going on about? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Childr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what was the fisher's wife always going on about? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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
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# Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

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Mate, what was the fisher's wife always going on about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate, wife · **What happens:** be, go on · **To what, where:** wife

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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/1931-pg7277-part68/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t1:1
# text = Mate, what was the fisher's wife always going on about?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and the fisher's wife | the fisher's wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | gerund | the fisher's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about, always *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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where the riches came from

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t1:o1:1
# text = where the riches came from
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the riches |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t1:o2:1
# text = the money
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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why the riches came from the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t1:o3:1
# text = why the riches came from the sea
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the riches |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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where the treasure went

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1931-pg7277-part68:t1:o4:1
# text = where the treasure went
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the treasure |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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