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title: Fr fr, what were the banns she was going to put up? — Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr fr, what were the banns she was going to put up? Test 12 · ★ 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 op
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…

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Fr fr, what were the banns she was going to put up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr fr, she · **What happens:** be, go, put up · **To what, where:** banns

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t12:1
# text = Fr fr, what were the banns she was going to put up?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	banns	banns	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fr fr | the banns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **put up** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a betrothal gift

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t12:o1:1
# text = a betrothal gift
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a marriage announcement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t12:o2:1
# text = a marriage announcement
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	announcement	announcement	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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a public notice of a coming marriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t12:o3:1
# text = a public notice of a coming marriage
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	amod	_	_
7	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** |  |  | a coming marriage |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the public reading of the intentions to wed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t12:o4:1
# text = the public reading of the intentions to wed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wed** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **read** |  |  | the intentions |  |  |  |  | nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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