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title: Be honest, who was sat in the corner bawling her eyes out? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, who was sat in the corner bawling her eyes out? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron
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# Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

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Be honest, who was sat in the corner bawling her eyes out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, corner · **What happens:** be, sit, bawl out · **To what, where:** corner, eyes

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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/765-pg2591-part41/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t2:1
# text = Be honest, who was sat in the corner bawling her eyes out?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	bawling	bawl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past · passive |  |  |  | the corner |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme in corner=Location |
| 3 | **bawl out** *speech: other* | gerund | the corner *not said here* | her eyes |  |  |  | out *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic |

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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 kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t2:o1:1
# text = the kid
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the stepmum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t2:o2:1
# text = the stepmum
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stepmum	stepmum	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 dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t2:o3:1
# text = the dad
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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little Marleen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:765-pg2591-part41:t2:o4:1
# text = little Marleen
1	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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