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title: the wife wanted eggs and bacon, but where'd she get herbs? — Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lam… · tree and pragmatics
description: the wife wanted eggs and bacon, but where'd she get herbs? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 924 «Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last night on his post and the three rivals on the bridge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 4 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lam…

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the wife wanted eggs and bacon, but where'd she get herbs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** want, get · **To what, where:** eggs, herbs

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 924 «Danish Fairy Tales, The Old Street Lamp, part 135: the lamp's last night on his post and the three rivals on the bridge» 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/924-pg27200-part135/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:924-pg27200-part135:t4:1
# text = the wife wanted eggs and bacon, but where'd she get herbs?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the wife | eggs and bacon |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot egg=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | would | wife | herbs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herb=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
from the schoolmaster's, proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:924-pg27200-part135:t4:o1:1
# text = from the schoolmaster's, proper
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
from the neighbours, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:924-pg27200-part135:t4:o2:1
# text = from the neighbours, innit
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she got them from the schoolmaster's, proper, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:924-pg27200-part135:t4:o3:1
# text = she got them from the schoolmaster's, proper, no cap
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | she | them *= they* |  |  |  | from the schoolmaster and no cap | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from schoolmaster=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
from the mill, dead proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:924-pg27200-part135:t4:o4:1
# text = from the mill, dead proper
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

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