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title: what did the laborer's wife say about the boy — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the laborer's wife say about the boy Test 7 · ★ 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 question and of each option
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…

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what did the laborer's wife say about the boy

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** do, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ 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. 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t7:1
# text = what did the laborer's wife say about the boy
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	laborer	laborer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about the boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the laborer's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 {#o1}

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he won't cost you anything more at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t7:o1:1
# text = he won't cost you anything more at all
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cost** | future | he | anything | you | all |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary anything=Value |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he won't cost you anything more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t7:o2:1
# text = he won't cost you anything more
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cost** | future | he | anything | you |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary anything=Value |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he eats very little these days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t7:o3:1
# text = he eats very little these days
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | he |  |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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he won't cost you anything more, not one penny from now on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t7:o4:1
# text = he won't cost you anything more, not one penny from now on
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cost** | future | he | anything | you |  |  |  | tree rules |

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