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title: Dead question, what did the girl kick to bits? — Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the g… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead question, what did the girl kick to bits? Test 4 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's…

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Dead question, what did the girl kick to bits?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** kick · **To what, where:** Dead question

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t4:1
# text = Dead question, what did the girl kick to bits?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past · do-support | the girl | Dead question |  |  |  | to bits *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent what=Patient to bit=Result |

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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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the broom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t4:o1:1
# text = the broom
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t4:o2:1
# text = the cup
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	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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the pail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t4:o3:1
# text = the pail
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pail	pail	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 pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t4:o4:1
# text = the pot
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pot	pot	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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