--- title: Yo, what did the sisters' mum tell her to chop off to fit the shoe? — Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Ci… · tree and pragmatics description: Yo, what did the sisters' mum tell her to chop off to fit the shoe? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 114 «Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Cinderella goes to the feast three times, loses a golden slipper, and the prince seeks his bride; the old king makes faithful John promise to guard his son» of the books --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/114-pg11027-part17/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Ci…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/114-pg11027-part17/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Cinderella goes to the… Yo, what did the sisters' mum tell her to chop off to fit the shoe? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** do, tell, chop off, fit · **To what, where:** her, shoe · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 114 «Grimm's Tales, Cinderella, part 17: Cinderella goes to the feast three times, loses a golden slipper, and the prince seeks his bride; the old king makes faithful John promise to guard his son» 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/114-pg11027-part17/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:114-pg11027-part17:t7:1 # text = Yo, what did the sisters' mum tell her to chop off to fit the shoe? 1 Yo yo INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 chop chop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 off off ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the sisters's mum | | her *= she* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **chop off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the sisters's mum *not said here* | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **fit** | to-infinitive | the sisters's mum *not said here* | the shoe | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | 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} her toes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:114-pg11027-part17:t7:o1:1 # text = her toes 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} her small toe ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:114-pg11027-part17:t7:o2:1 # text = her small toe 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} her big toe ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:114-pg11027-part17:t7:o3:1 # text = her big toe 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a heel ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:114-pg11027-part17:t7:o4:1 # text = a heel 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 heel heel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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