--- title: What was the stone for, like, at her door? — English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the stone for, like, at her door? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/243-pg14241-part10/t5/) [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, The Hedley Kow: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/243-pg14241-part10/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl… What was the stone for, like, at her door? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** stone This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» 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/243-pg14241-part10/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t5:1 # text = What was the stone for, like, at her door? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 like like INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the stone and her door | | | | | tree rules | 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} to hide ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t5:o1:1 # text = to hide 1 to to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 hide hide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} hold it open ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t5:o2:1 # text = hold it open 1 hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} keep it shut ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t5:o3:1 # text = keep it shut 1 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 shut shut ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | shut *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} to block ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:243-pg14241-part10:t5:o4:1 # text = to block 1 to to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 block block VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **block** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | **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. - ← previous: [English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a…, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/243-pg14241-part10/t4/) - next →: [English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/243-pg14241-part10/t6/) - ↑ back to [English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/243-pg14241-part10/)