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title: did the stepmom like her stepdaughter at all? — Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the stepmom like her stepdaughter at all? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1115 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slippers are left behind and the search begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slipp…

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did the stepmom like her stepdaughter at all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** stepmom

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1115 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Heifer, part 21: the golden slippers are left behind and the search begins» 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/1115-pg29672-part21/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1115-pg29672-part21:t6:1
# text = did the stepmom like her stepdaughter at all?
1	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stepmom	stepmom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the stepmom |  |  |  | like her stepdaughter at all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepmom=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, she hated her more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1115-pg29672-part21:t6:o1:1
# text = Nope, she hated her more
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past | she | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah at first, but then she grew jealous and hated her even more than before

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1115-pg29672-part21:t6:o2:1
# text = Yeah at first, but then she grew jealous and hated her even more than before
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	obj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | she |  |  |  | then | jealous *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location |
| 2 | **hate** | past | she *not said here* | her more |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nope, she was always sending her to the fields in the freezing rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1115-pg29672-part21:t6:o3:1
# text = Nope, she was always sending her to the fields in the freezing rain
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · progressive | she | her *= she* |  | the freezing rain |  | to the fields; always *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to field=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kind of, but not really

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1115-pg29672-part21:t6:o4:1
# text = Kind of, but not really
1	Kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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