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title: oi, who reckoned the laundry girl was worth more than the whole lot… — English Fairy Tales, The Three Feather… · tree and pragmatics
description: oi, who reckoned the laundry girl was worth more than the whole lot put together? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

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oi, who reckoned the laundry girl was worth more than the whole lot put together?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** oi, laundry girl · **What happens:** reckon, be, put together · **To what, where:** whole lot

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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/241-pg14241-part8/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t1:1
# text = oi, who reckoned the laundry girl was worth more than the whole lot put together?
1	oi	oi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	laundry	laundry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past | oi |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the laundry girl |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put together** | participle |  | the whole lot *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the master's missus and her sister

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t1:o1:1
# text = the master's missus and her sister
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	missus	missus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the master's missus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t1:o2:1
# text = the master's missus
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	missus	missus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the laundry girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t1:o3:1
# text = the laundry girl
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	laundry	laundry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the master's wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t1:o4:1
# text = the master's wife
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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