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title: What did the sweep say she'd be, like, after the wedding? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdes… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the sweep say she'd be, like, after the wedding? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

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What did the sweep say she'd be, like, after the wedding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sweep · **What happens:** do, say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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/974-pg27200-part185/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t13:1
# text = What did the sweep say she'd be, like, after the wedding?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the sweep |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | would | sweep |  |  |  |  | like the wedding | 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 lady of the Major-general's house and a proper china wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t13:o1:1
# text = a lady of the Major-general's house and a proper china wife
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Major	Major	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	general	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a lady of the household

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t13:o2:1
# text = a lady of the household
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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a lady of the Major-general

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t13:o3:1
# text = a lady of the Major-general
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a lady of the Major-general's court with a grand silk sash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t13:o4:1
# text = a lady of the Major-general's court with a grand silk sash
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	sash	sash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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