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title: Ngl, what did the mistress ask Sarah for? — Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the mistress ask Sarah for? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 865 «Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps her vow, hears a knight's legend and is buried outside the churchyard wall» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 9 · ★ · Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps…

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Ngl, what did the mistress ask Sarah for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mistress · **What happens:** ask · **To what, where:** Sarah

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 865 «Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps her vow, hears a knight's legend and is buried outside the churchyard wall» 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/865-pg27200-part76/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:865-pg27200-part76:t9:1
# text = Ngl, what did the mistress ask Sarah for?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · do-support | the mistress |  | Sarah |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A prayer from her book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:865-pg27200-part76:t9:o1:1
# text = A prayer from her book
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Some reading from her Bible

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:865-pg27200-part76:t9:o2:1
# text = Some reading from her Bible
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Some verses from the Gospels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:865-pg27200-part76:t9:o3:1
# text = Some verses from the Gospels
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Gospels	Gospel	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her letter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:865-pg27200-part76:t9:o4:1
# text = Her letter
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **letter** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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