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title: Why did Peter need the hangman's cloak, bruv? — Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Peter need the hangman's cloak, bruv? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 4 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the ma…

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Why did Peter need the hangman's cloak, bruv?

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

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 687 «Hauff's Tales, The Cold Heart, part 27: Peter takes the magic root, steals the gold, and Lucia gets a suitor» 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/687-pg2435-part27/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t4:1
# text = Why did Peter need the hangman's cloak, bruv?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hangman	hangman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | past · do-support | Peter | the hangman's cloak and bruv |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cloak=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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to scare the woodpecker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t4:o1:1
# text = to scare the woodpecker
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	scare	scare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare** | to-infinitive |  | the woodpecker |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woodpecker=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to scare the woodpecker off the magic root

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t4:o2:1
# text = to scare the woodpecker off the magic root
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	scare	scare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare** | to-infinitive |  | the woodpecker |  |  |  | off the magic root | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woodpecker=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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to fetch the nest back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t4:o3:1
# text = to fetch the nest back
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch back** | to-infinitive |  | the nest |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to frighten the bird off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:687-pg2435-part27:t4:o4:1
# text = to frighten the bird off
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten off** | to-infinitive |  | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer |

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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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