---
title: Honestly, what did the clergyman's wife call the linen? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Honestly, what did the clergyman's wife call the linen? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 827 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and the flax becomes linen and then paper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/827-pg27200-part38/t11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/827-pg27200-part38/) / t11

# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Honestly, what did the clergyman's wife call the linen?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** do, call · **To what, where:** linen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 827 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and the flax becomes linen and then paper» 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/827-pg27200-part38/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:827-pg27200-part38:t11:1
# text = Honestly, what did the clergyman's wife call the linen?
1	Honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present | the clergyman's wife | the linen |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent linen=Recipient |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the finest linen anyone in the village had ever seen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:827-pg27200-part38:t11:o1:1
# text = the finest linen anyone in the village had ever seen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · perfect | anyone |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the finest in the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:827-pg27200-part38:t11:o2:1
# text = the finest in the town
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the best in the parish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:827-pg27200-part38:t11:o3:1
# text = the best in the parish
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the best linen in the whole parish church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:827-pg27200-part38:t11:o4:1
# text = the best linen in the whole parish church
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	parish	parish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/827-pg27200-part38/t10/)
- next →: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/827-pg27200-part38/t12/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flax: the fir-tree burns, and the flax becomes linen and then paper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/827-pg27200-part38/)