--- title: Ain't it dead sad she went blind? — English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the p… · tree and pragmatics description: Ain't it dead sad she went blind? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1974-pg7439-part33/t9/) [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, Dame Goody, the p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1974-pg7439-part33/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st… Ain't it dead sad she went blind? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** go This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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/1974-pg7439-part33/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t9:1 # text = Ain't it dead sad she went blind? 1 Ai ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | she | | | | | blind *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} blind on one side until the day she died ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t9:o1:1 # text = blind on one side until the day she died 1 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 until until ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | she | the day *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} blind for a year ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t9:o2:1 # text = blind for a year 1 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} blind for many a year ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t9:o3:1 # text = blind for many a year 1 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} blind till she died ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1974-pg7439-part33:t9:o4:1 # text = blind till she died 1 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 till till SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | past | she | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | **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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