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title: How did the laborer's wife respond to the news of the drowned boy? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did the laborer's wife respond to the news of the drowned boy? Exam question 3 of lesson 793 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sinks, and Anne Lisbeth walks home alone by the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…

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How did the laborer's wife respond to the news of the drowned boy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, drown · **To what, where:** wife respond

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 793 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sinks, and Anne Lisbeth walks home alone by the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/793-pg27200-part4/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:e3:1
# text = How did the laborer's wife respond to the news of the drowned boy?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	laborer	laborer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	respond	respond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the laborer's wife respond |  |  |  | to the news of the drowned boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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She discussed it with cool practicality

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:e3:o1:1
# text = She discussed it with cool practicality
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	practicality	practicality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discuss** *speech: other* | past | She | it |  |  |  | with cool practicality | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent it=Topic with practicality=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She discussed it with cool practicality and then went back to her chores

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:e3:o2:1
# text = She discussed it with cool practicality and then went back to her chores
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	practicality	practicality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	chores	chore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discuss** *speech: other* | past | She | it |  |  |  | with cool practicality | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent it=Topic with practicality=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **go back** | past | She *not said here* |  |  |  | then | to her chores *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to chore=Result |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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She prayed for the boy's soul

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:e3:o3:1
# text = She prayed for the boy's soul
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | She |  |  |  |  | for the boy's soul | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for soul=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She argued about the cost of the funeral

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:e3:o4:1
# text = She argued about the cost of the funeral
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	argued	argue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past | She |  |  |  |  | about the cost of the funeral | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about cost=Topic |
| 2 | **cost** |  |  | the funeral |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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