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title: mate, who did the coachman ask if the girl had served him proper? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Feather… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate, who did the coachman ask if the girl had served him proper? Test 5 · ★ 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 the dependency t
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# Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

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mate, who did the coachman ask if the girl had served him proper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** ask, serve · **To what, where:** mate, girl

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t5:1
# text = mate, who did the coachman ask if the girl had served him proper?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support |  | mate |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **serve** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the girl |  |  |  | properly *property* | tree rules |

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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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Sam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t5:o1:1
# text = Sam
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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James

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t5:o2:1
# text = James
1	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Harold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t5:o3:1
# text = Harold
1	Harold	Harold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:241-pg14241-part8:t5:o4:1
# text = Tom
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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