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title: Yo, who gave George the hymn-book, the General or Emily? — Andersen tales, George and little Emil… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who gave George the hymn-book, the General or Emily? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

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Yo, who gave George the hymn-book, the General or Emily?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** George

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» 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/944-pg27200-part155/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t2:1
# text = Yo, who gave George the hymn-book, the General or Emily?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  |  | George or Emily |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent george=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Emily, the little lady

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t2:o1:1
# text = Emily, the little lady
1	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Emily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t2:o2:1
# text = Emily
1	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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the General

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t2:o3:1
# text = the General
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	General	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Emily, the porter's girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:944-pg27200-part155:t2:o4:1
# text = Emily, the porter's girl
1	Emily	Emily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

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