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title: How did Kate help her sister, wee man? — English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts:… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did Kate help her sister, wee man? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

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How did Kate help her sister, wee man?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Kate · **What happens:** help · **To what, where:** sister

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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/1972-pg7439-part31/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t4:1
# text = How did Kate help her sister, wee man?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past · do-support | Kate |  | Kate's sister and wee man |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Beneficiary |

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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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Wrapped her heid in linen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t4:o1:1
# text = Wrapped her heid in linen
1	Wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heid	heid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | past |  | her heid |  | linen |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heid=Theme in linen=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She hid her in the barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t4:o2:1
# text = She hid her in the barn
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | She | her *= she* |  | the barn |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in barn=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She fed her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t4:o3:1
# text = She fed her
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | She |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She sang tae her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1972-pg7439-part31:t4:o4:1
# text = She sang tae her
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | She |  |  |  |  | tae her *= she* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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