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title: What did Jack's sweetheart have in her apron, like? — English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Tabl… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Jack's sweetheart have in her apron, like? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Ja…

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What did Jack's sweetheart have in her apron, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sweetheart · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** apron

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1973 «English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick: Jack gets three magic gifts, loses two, and wins his sweetheart» 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/1973-pg7439-part32/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t8:1
# text = What did Jack's sweetheart have in her apron, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Jack's sweetheart |  |  | sweetheart's apron |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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A pile of gold coins and some jewels that she kept hidden away in the apron

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t8:o1:1
# text = A pile of gold coins and some jewels that she kept hidden away in the apron
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | she | gold coins and some jewels |  | the apron |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme in apron=Location |
| 2 | **hide away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A handful of bread and cheese, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t8:o2:1
# text = A handful of bread and cheese, mate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only two copper pennies, that was it, nothing more at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t8:o3:1
# text = Only two copper pennies, that was it, nothing more at all
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	appos	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only two copper pennies, that was it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1973-pg7439-part32:t8:o4:1
# text = Only two copper pennies, that was it
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | two copper pennies | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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