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title: Dead creepy, the harp made itself out of her bones, didn't it? — English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead creepy, the harp made itself out of her bones, didn't it? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells the truth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the…

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Dead creepy, the harp made itself out of her bones, didn't it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** harp · **What happens:** make, not do · **To what, where:** harp, bones

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1949 «English Fairy Tales, Binnorie: the cruel sister drowns the youngest princess and the harp tells the truth» 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/1949-pg7439-part8/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t4:1
# text = Dead creepy, the harp made itself out of her bones, didn't it?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the harp | harp |  | her bones |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material itself=Product |
| 2 | **not** **do** | past | harp |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Yeah, her skull and her teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t4:o1:1
# text = Yeah, her skull and her teeth
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, from a sycamore tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t4:o2:1
# text = Nah, from a sycamore tree
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sycamore	sycamore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tree	tree	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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Yeah, her breast-bone and her hair, plus her fingers too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah, her breast-bone and her hair, plus her fingers too
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, her breast-bone and her hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1949-pg7439-part8:t4:o4:1
# text = Yeah, her breast-bone and her hair
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

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