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title: Yo, why did the godmother say leave before midnight? — Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, why did the godmother say leave before midnight? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1085 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10: a coachman, footmen and a slipper that fits» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10: a coachman, footmen…

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Yo, why did the godmother say leave before midnight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** godmother · **What happens:** do, say, leave · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1085 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderilla, part 10: a coachman, footmen and a slipper that fits» 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/1085-pg29021-part10/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1085-pg29021-part10:t11:1
# text = Yo, why did the godmother say leave before midnight?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 godmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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or everything turns back to rags and rats at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1085-pg29021-part10:t11:o1:1
# text = or everything turns back to rags and rats at once
1	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | present | everything |  |  | rags and rats |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to rag=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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or the spell will break at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1085-pg29021-part10:t11:o2:1
# text = or the spell will break at once
1	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | future | the spell |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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or everything she owns turns back into rags and rats and mice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1085-pg29021-part10:t11:o3:1
# text = or everything she owns turns back into rags and rats and mice
1	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	owns	own	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | present | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **turn back** | present | everything |  |  | rags and rats and mice |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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or everything turns back to rags and rats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1085-pg29021-part10:t11:o4:1
# text = or everything turns back to rags and rats
1	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | present | everything |  |  | rags and rats |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to rag=Destination |

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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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