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title: Okay real talk, why couldn't the wife sleep at all that night? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay real talk, why couldn't the wife sleep at all that night? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1938 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greedy wife wants to be emperor, then pope, then god, and ends back in her hut» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greed…

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Okay real talk, why couldn't the wife sleep at all that night?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1938 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: the greedy wife wants to be emperor, then pope, then god, and ends back in her hut» 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/1938-pg7277-part75/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:t8:1
# text = Okay real talk, why couldn't the wife sleep at all that night?
1	Okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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her greed kept her thinkin'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:t8:o1:1
# text = her greed kept her thinkin'
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	greed	greed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	thinkin	thinkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | her greed | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme thinkin=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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she was angry all the night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:t8:o2:1
# text = she was angry all the night
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  | night | angry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she was too worried about the cold and the bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:t8:o3:1
# text = she was too worried about the cold and the bed
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | about the cold and the bed; worried *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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her husband snored and kept waking her up all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1938-pg7277-part75:t8:o4:1
# text = her husband snored and kept waking her up all night
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	snored	snore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore** | past | her husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | past | her husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wake up** | gerund | her husband *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  | night |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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