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title: What action did Mr. Vinegar perform in order to shelter his wife thr… — English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vine… · tree and pragmatics
description: What action did Mr. Vinegar perform in order to shelter his wife through the night? Exam question 3 of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

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What action did Mr. Vinegar perform in order to shelter his wife through the night?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** action, Vinegar · **What happens:** do, perform, shelter · **To what, where:** order, wife

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1946-pg7439-part5/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e3:1
# text = What action did Mr. Vinegar perform in order to shelter his wife through the night?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	shelter	shelter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | action |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | present | Vinegar  Mr. |  |  | order |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shelter** | to-infinitive | Vinegar  Mr. *not said here* | Vinegar's wife |  |  | night |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he dragged the door into the tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e3:o1:1
# text = he dragged the door into the tree
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past | he | the door |  | the tree |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he dragged the door into the tree and tied it fast with rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e3:o2:1
# text = he dragged the door into the tree and tied it fast with rope
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past | he | the door |  | the tree |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 2 | **tie** | past | he *not said here* | door |  |  |  | with rope; fast *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with rope=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he hauled the wooden gate away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e3:o3:1
# text = he hauled the wooden gate away
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hauled	haul	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haul** | past | he | the wooden gate |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he dragged the heavy door up into the tree at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e3:o4:1
# text = he dragged the heavy door up into the tree at night
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past | he | the heavy door |  | the tree | night |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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