--- title: So what did the old woman want for the info? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a… · tree and pragmatics description: So what did the old woman want for the info? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/301-pg1597-part28/t10/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/301-pg1597-part28/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m… So what did the old woman want for the info? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old woman · **What happens:** want This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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/301-pg1597-part28/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t10:1 # text = So what did the old woman want for the info? 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 info info NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past · do-support | the old woman | | | | | for the info | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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} the mum's old coat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t10:o1:1 # text = the mum's old coat 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} the child's good shoes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t10:o2:1 # text = the child's good shoes 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the mum's black hair ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t10:o3:1 # text = the mum's black hair 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the mum's long black hair and her ring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:t10:o4:1 # text = the mum's long black hair and her ring 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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