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title: Sick, what was George's savings-box for? — Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, what was George's savings-box for? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

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Sick, what was George's savings-box for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** sick, be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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/943-pg27200-part154/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t4:1
# text = Sick, what was George's savings-box for?
1	Sick	sick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | 's George | 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 painting set

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t4:o1:1
# text = a painting set
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	set	set	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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a new box of oil paints

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t4:o2:1
# text = a new box of oil paints
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	paints	paint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a paint-box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t4:o3:1
# text = a paint-box
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a sketch-book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t4:o4:1
# text = a sketch-book
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sketch	sketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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