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title: Who got sent to fetch the axe then? — Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who got sent to fetch the axe then? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1154 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmother drowns the princess and disguises her own daughter as the bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…

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Who got sent to fetch the axe then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** send, fetch · **To what, where:** axe

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1154 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmother drowns the princess and disguises her own daughter as the bride» 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/1154-pg3027-part20/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t5:1
# text = Who got sent to fetch the axe then?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | the axe |  |  | then |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |

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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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Her eldest lass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t5:o1:1
# text = Her eldest lass
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	lass	lass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Her own daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t5:o2:1
# 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 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The stepdaughter's own younger sister, dead keen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t5:o3:1
# text = The stepdaughter's own younger sister, dead keen
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Some neighbour's kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t5:o4:1
# text = Some neighbour's kid
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	kid	kid	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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