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title: Was the second sister ansum or gurt greedy, bor? — English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the second sister ansum or gurt greedy, bor? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 250 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a tree, gets three wishes, and wastes one on black pudding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a…

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Was the second sister ansum or gurt greedy, bor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, gurt, bor · **To what, where:** second sister ansum

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 250 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Wishes: a woodman spares a tree, gets three wishes, and wastes one on black pudding» 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/250-pg14241-part17/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:250-pg14241-part17:t4:1
# text = Was the second sister ansum or gurt greedy, bor?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ansum	ansum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gurt	gurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bor	bor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the second sister ansum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gurt** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | greedy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bor** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gurt greedy, she ignored everyone and kept all the gold for herself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:250-pg14241-part17:t4:o1:1
# text = Gurt greedy, she ignored everyone and kept all the gold for herself
1	Gurt	gurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gurt** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greedy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ignore** | past | she | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | she *not said here* | all gold |  |  |  | for herself *= she* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Gurt greedy, she ignored everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:250-pg14241-part17:t4:o2:1
# text = Gurt greedy, she ignored everyone
1	Gurt	gurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gurt** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | greedy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ignore** | past | she | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ansum, she shared with everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:250-pg14241-part17:t4:o3:1
# text = Ansum, she shared with everyone
1	Ansum	Ansum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | past | Ansum |  |  |  |  | with everyone | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ansum, she helped each one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:250-pg14241-part17:t4:o4:1
# text = Ansum, she helped each one
1	Ansum	Ansum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | Ansum | each one |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary |

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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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