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title: What reason did Master Peter Bloch give his wife for making his will? — Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What reason did Master Peter Bloch give his wife for making his will? Exam question 4 of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 4 · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

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What reason did Master Peter Bloch give his wife for making his will?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Peter Bloch · **What happens:** give, make · **To what, where:** wife

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/686-pg2435-part26/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:e4:1
# text = What reason did Master Peter Bloch give his wife for making his will?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obl	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Bloch	Bloch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | Peter Bloch | Bloch's wife |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | future | Peter Bloch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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Because he felt very ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:e4:o1:1
# text = Because he felt very ill
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | he |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To be safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:e4:o2:1
# text = To be safe
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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That his house might be in order

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:e4:o3:1
# text = That his house might be in order
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | his house |  |  | order |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That his debts might be paid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:e4:o4:1
# text = That his debts might be paid
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | might · passive |  | his debts |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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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