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title: Innit, why was the peasant out in the storm? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit, why was the peasant out in the storm? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a w…

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Innit, why was the peasant out in the storm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Innit · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** peasant, storm

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 751 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson: a wooden calf, a raven and a hidden Devil» 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/751-pg2591-part27/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t13:1
# text = Innit, why was the peasant out in the storm?
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	1	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Innit | the peasant |  | the storm |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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to sell the cow skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t13:o1:1
# text = to sell the cow skin
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  | the cow skin |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to trade the cow hide

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t13:o2:1
# text = to trade the cow hide
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trade	trade	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trade** | to-infinitive |  | the cow hide |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to get money for the cow skin and the raven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t13:o3:1
# text = to get money for the cow skin and the raven
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | money |  |  |  | for the cow skin and the raven | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for skin=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to sell hides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:751-pg2591-part27:t13:o4:1
# text = to sell hides
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  | hides |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme |

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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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