--- title: Hang on, what's the eldest sister doing about the youngest? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and… · tree and pragmatics description: Hang on, what's the eldest sister doing about the youngest? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 733 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: the soldier wins a princess, and the fisherman's wife starts asking for more» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/733-pg2591-part9/t11/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/733-pg2591-part9/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: t… Hang on, what's the eldest sister doing about the youngest? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, eldest sister · **What happens:** hang on, be, do · **To what, where:** eldest sister This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 733 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: the soldier wins a princess, and the fisherman's wife starts asking for more» 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/733-pg2591-part9/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t11:1 # text = Hang on, what's the eldest sister doing about the youngest? 1 Hang hang VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang on** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the eldest sister | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | gerund | the eldest sister *not said here* | | | | | about the youngest | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} Shushing her ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t11:o1:1 # text = Shushing her 1 Shushing shush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shush** | gerund | | her *= she* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} Hitting her ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t11:o2:1 # text = Hitting her 1 Hitting hit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | gerund | | her *= she* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Shushing her and telling her to keep quiet about the dancing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t11:o3:1 # text = Shushing her and telling her to keep quiet about the dancing 1 Shushing shush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shush** | gerund | | her *= she* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | her *= she* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | about the dancing; quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about dancing=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} Hugging her ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:733-pg2591-part9:t11:o4:1 # text = Hugging her 1 Hugging hug VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hug** | gerund | | her *= she* | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | **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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