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title: Was the servant's fiddle wicked or what? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the servant's fiddle wicked or what? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 758 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Elsie runs off, and a servant turns a miser's money into a dancing bush» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els…

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Was the servant's fiddle wicked or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fiddle · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 758 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Elsie runs off, and a servant turns a miser's money into a dancing bush» 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/758-pg2591-part34/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t8:1
# text = Was the servant's fiddle wicked or what?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the servant's fiddle |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | 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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Mad good, made people sing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t8:o1:1
# text = Mad good, made people sing
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Mad good | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Dead good, made everyone dance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t8:o2:1
# text = Dead good, made everyone dance
1	Dead	dead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	compound	_	_
6	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | everyone dance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dance=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pretty decent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t8:o3:1
# text = Pretty decent
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Proper cool, got folks moving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t8:o4:1
# text = Proper cool, got folks moving
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | cool | folks |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folk=Stimulus |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | folks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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