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title: Mate, what did Grethel shove the witch into, like? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could Bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did Grethel shove the witch into, like? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a…

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Mate, what did Grethel shove the witch into, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Grethel · **What happens:** shove · **To what, where:** witch

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» 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/102-pg11027-part5/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t1:1
# text = Mate, what did Grethel shove the witch into, like?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shove	shove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shove** | past · do-support | Grethel | the witch |  |  |  | Mate *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the oven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t1:o1:1
# text = the oven
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oven	oven	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 pit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t1:o2:1
# text = a pit
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the wooden chest in the corner by the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t1:o3:1
# text = the wooden chest in the corner by the door
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the big black iron oven in the kitchen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:102-pg11027-part5:t1:o4:1
# text = the big black iron oven in the kitchen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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