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title: did she have faith still or was it totally gone? — Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: did she have faith still or was it totally gone? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

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did she have faith still or was it totally gone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she, faith · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** faith

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» 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/809-pg27200-part20/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t12:1
# text = did she have faith still or was it totally gone?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | she | faith |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | faith |  |  |  | still | go, totally *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 {#o1}

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she still prayed daily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t12:o1:1
# text = she still prayed daily
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | she |  |  |  | still | daily *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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she lost her faith completely after the death of her son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t12:o2:1
# text = she lost her faith completely after the death of her son
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | she | her faith |  |  | after the death of her son | completely *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Eventuality |
| 2 | **die** |  | her son |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she doubted God a little

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t12:o3:1
# text = she doubted God a little
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	doubted	doubt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doubt** | past | she | God |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |

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

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she lost her faith

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:809-pg27200-part20:t12:o4:1
# text = she lost her faith
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | she | her faith |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Eventuality |

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