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title: Was the Ogre's missus, like, crying or chilling? — Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the Ogre's missus, like, crying or chilling? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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 w
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# Test 3 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

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Was the Ogre's missus, like, crying or chilling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, chill · **To what, where:** missus

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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/1090-pg29021-part15/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t3:1
# text = Was the Ogre's missus, like, crying or chilling?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	missus	missus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	crying	cry	NOUN	VBG	_	5	appos	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Ogre's missus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chill** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Crying over her seven daughters who were slain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t3:o1:1
# text = Crying over her seven daughters who were slain
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over her seven daughters | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over daughter=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | her seven daughters |  |  |  |  | slain *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Crying over her daughters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t3:o2:1
# text = Crying over her daughters
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over her daughters | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over daughter=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Crying bitterly over her daughters' deaths at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t3:o3:1
# text = Crying bitterly over her daughters' deaths at dawn
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | her daughters's deaths | dawn | bitterly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over death=Location |
| 2 | **die** |  | her daughters |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Weeping for her girls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t3:o4:1
# text = Weeping for her girls
1	Weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for her girls | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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