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title: Did her sisters want to go to the ball, innit? — Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did her sisters want to go to the ball, innit? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1084 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper, part 9: Puss eats the Ogre and wins a castle, then Cinderilla is left behind» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper…

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Did her sisters want to go to the ball, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sisters · **What happens:** want, go, innit · **To what, where:** ball

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1084 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper, part 9: Puss eats the Ogre and wins a castle, then Cinderilla is left behind» 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/1084-pg29021-part9/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1084-pg29021-part9:t11:1
# text = Did her sisters want to go to the ball, innit?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | her sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | her sisters *not said here* |  |  | the ball |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive | her sisters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Yeah, they were dead keen to go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1084-pg29021-part9:t11:o1:1
# text = Yeah, they were dead keen to go
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | they | dead keen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they were keen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1084-pg29021-part9:t11:o2:1
# text = Yeah, they were keen
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | keen *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Yeah, they were buzzing and bang on about it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1084-pg29021-part9:t11:o3:1
# text = Yeah, they were buzzing and bang on about it
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bang	bang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | past · progressive | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bang on** | present | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about it | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about it=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they were buzzing and went shopping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1084-pg29021-part9:t11:o4:1
# text = Yeah, they were buzzing and went shopping
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | past · progressive | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | they *not said here* | shopping |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shopping=Theme |

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