--- title: What was at the bottom of the steps, no cap? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Cou… · tree and pragmatics description: What was at the bottom of the steps, no cap? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/104-pg11027-part7/t14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Cou…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/104-pg11027-part7/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri… What was at the bottom of the steps, no cap? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bottom This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» 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/104-pg11027-part7/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t14:1 # text = What was at the bottom of the steps, no cap? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | the bottom and no cap | | of the steps | tree rules | 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} another door ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t14:o1:1 # text = another door 1 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a long dark tunnel leading down to the cellar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t14:o2:1 # text = a long dark tunnel leading down to the cellar 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 tunnel tunnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead down** | gerund | a long dark tunnel *not said here* | | | | | to the cellar; down *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to cellar=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} a room full of old skulls and bones ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t14:o3:1 # text = a room full of old skulls and bones 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 skulls skull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a stone well ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t14:o4:1 # text = a stone well 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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