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title: Why do the sisters conceal Trembling inside a closet? — Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do the sisters conceal Trembling inside a closet? Exam question 3 of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 3 · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…

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Why do the sisters conceal Trembling inside a closet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sisters · **What happens:** do, conceal, tremble · **To what, where:** closet

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/2012-pg7885-part31/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:e3:1
# text = Why do the sisters conceal Trembling inside a closet?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	conceal	conceal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | the sisters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conceal** | present | the sisters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund | the sisters *not said here* |  |  | a closet |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside closet=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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so the princes wouldn't see her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:e3:o1:1
# text = so the princes wouldn't see her
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | would | the princes | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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because the princes wanted to marry her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:e3:o2:1
# text = because the princes wanted to marry her
1	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the princes |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the princes *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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to keep her safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:e3:o3:1
# text = to keep her safe
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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

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to prevent her being seen by the princes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2012-pg7885-part31:e3:o4:1
# text = to prevent her being seen by the princes
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | the princes *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | gerund · passive | the princes |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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