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title: What's the cake lady making at the end? — Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's D… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the cake lady making at the end? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1128 «Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Ivan is tricked and the dragon is fooled, then the maiden becomes a fish» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Iv…

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What's the cake lady making at the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cake lady · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** end

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1128 «Russian Folk-Tales, The She-Dragon's Daughter, part 34: Ivan is tricked and the dragon is fooled, then the maiden becomes a fish» 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/1128-pg29672-part34/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t9:1
# text = What's the cake lady making at the end?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the cake lady |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the cake lady *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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Cakes out of honey, ace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t9:o1:1
# text = Cakes out of honey, ace
1	Cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ace	ace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cakes, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t9:o2:1
# text = Cakes, innit
1	Cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pies out of flour, nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t9:o3:1
# text = Pies out of flour, nice
1	Pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Doves out of dough, wicked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1128-pg29672-part34:t9:o4:1
# text = Doves out of dough, wicked
1	Doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

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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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