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title: Who's the boss driving the little hearse, like, who's in charge? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the boss driving the little hearse, like, who's in charge? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 739 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15: Rapunzel is locked in a tower, and a prince learns how to climb up to her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15: Rapunzel is locked…

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Who's the boss driving the little hearse, like, who's in charge?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boss · **What happens:** be, drive · **To what, where:** boss, little hearse, charge

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 739 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15: Rapunzel is locked in a tower, and a prince learns how to climb up to her» 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/739-pg2591-part15/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:739-pg2591-part15:t5:1
# text = Who's the boss driving the little hearse, like, who's in charge?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hearse	hearse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the boss and charge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | gerund | the boss and charge *not said here* | the little hearse |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme hearse=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | the boss and charge |  |  | charge |  |  | tree rules |

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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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the fox, who walks ahead of the coffin on the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:739-pg2591-part15:t5:o1:1
# text = the fox, who walks ahead of the coffin on the road
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | the fox |  |  | the road |  | of the coffin; ahead *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of coffin=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Chanticleer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:739-pg2591-part15:t5:o2:1
# text = Chanticleer
1	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the cockerel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:739-pg2591-part15:t5:o3:1
# text = the cockerel
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cockerel	cockerel	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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the mice, who built the little hearse and push it along

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:739-pg2591-part15:t5:o4:1
# text = the mice, who built the little hearse and push it along
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hearse	hearse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	along	along	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past |  | the mice |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearse=Product |
| 2 | **push** | infinitive |  | hearse |  |  |  | along *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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