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title: Yo, who totally dragged the sick laundress home? — Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who totally dragged the sick laundress home? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» 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 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…

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Yo, who totally dragged the sick laundress home?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** drag · **To what, where:** sick laundress home

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» 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/844-pg27200-part55/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t1:1
# text = Yo, who totally dragged the sick laundress home?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	laundress	laundress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past |  | the sick laundress home |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |

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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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Her mistress

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t1:o1:1
# text = Her mistress
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mistress	mistress	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 glovemaker's old lame sister

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t1:o2:1
# text = the glovemaker's old lame sister
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glovemaker	glovemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sister	sister	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 counsellor's wife and her cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t1:o3:1
# text = the counsellor's wife and her cook
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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Lame Martha

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t1:o4:1
# text = Lame Martha
1	Lame	lame	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Martha	Martha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lame** | imperative | you *not said here* | Martha |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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