--- title: ngl, why was Mr. V's whole deal kinda wild? — English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vine… · tree and pragmatics description: ngl, why was Mr. V's whole deal kinda wild? Test 11 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1946-pg7439-part5/t11/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vine…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1946-pg7439-part5/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin… ngl, why was Mr. V's whole deal kinda wild? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** whole deal This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t11:1 # text = ngl, why was Mr. V's whole deal kinda wild? 1 ngl ngl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 1 advmod _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:desc _ _ 6 V V PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 kinda kinda ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | ngl | V Mr.'s whole deal | | | | | tree rules | 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} he kept swapping stuff ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t11:o1:1 # text = he kept swapping stuff 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 swapping swap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | he | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swap** | gerund | he *not said here* | stuff | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} he swapped his wife's cow for a broken door ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t11:o2:1 # text = he swapped his wife's cow for a broken door 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 swapped swap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swap** | past | he | his wife's cow | | | | for a broken door | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent cow=Theme for door=Co-Theme | | 2 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} he kept buying things ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t11:o3:1 # text = he kept buying things 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | he | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **buy** | gerund | he *not said here* | things | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} he kept swapping stuff for things he didn't need ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t11:o4:1 # text = he kept swapping stuff for things he didn't need 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 swapping swap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | he | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swap** | gerund | he *not said here* | stuff | | | | for things | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme for thing=Co-Theme | | 3 | **not** **need** | past · do-support | he | things *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | **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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