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title: Ok, what did Peter tell his wife he was making? — Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok, what did Peter tell his wife he was making? Test 10 · ★ 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 question and of each optio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

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Ok, what did Peter tell his wife he was making?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** tell, make · **To what, where:** wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t10:1
# text = Ok, what did Peter tell his wife he was making?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Peter |  | Peter's wife |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient wife=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past · progressive | Peter | Peter's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Product |

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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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His house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t10:o1:1
# text = His house
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	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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His will

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t10:o2:1
# text = His will
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A cart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t10:o3:1
# text = A cart
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	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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A grave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t10:o4:1
# text = A grave
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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