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title: Yo, who did the mum chuck down the well first, like, her own kid or… — Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the g… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who did the mum chuck down the well first, like, her own kid or the old lady? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1152 «Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's casket burns the cottage down» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 1 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's…

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Yo, who did the mum chuck down the well first, like, her own kid or the old lady?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** mum chuck

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1152 «Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's casket burns the cottage down» 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/1152-pg3027-part18/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t1:1
# text = Yo, who did the mum chuck down the well first, like, her own kid or the old lady?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	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	7	det	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chuck	chuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the mum chuck |  |  |  | down the well; first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=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 {#o1}

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the crone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t1:o1:1
# text = the crone
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crone	crone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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her husband's son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t1:o2:1
# text = her husband's son
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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her own daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t1:o3:1
# text = her own daughter
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t1:o4:1
# text = the cat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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