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title: Right, what was the bag of groats hanging off, like? — English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Right, what was the bag of groats hanging off, like? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…

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Right, what was the bag of groats hanging off, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** groats · **What happens:** be, hang off · **To what, where:** bag

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them back» 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/236-pg14241-part3/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t4:1
# text = Right, what was the bag of groats hanging off, like?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	groats	groat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the bag |  |  |  | of groats | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang off** | gerund | groats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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a hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t4:o1:1
# text = a hook
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the rope from the rafters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t4:o2:1
# text = the rope from the rafters
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rafters	rafter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t4:o3:1
# text = the bed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the tester over the bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:236-pg14241-part3:t4:o4:1
# text = the tester over the bed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tester	tester	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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