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title: What was chilling on the axe handle, mate? — Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was chilling on the axe handle, mate? Test 6 · ★ 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 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The Singing Roses, part 20: the stepmo…

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What was chilling on the axe handle, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** chill · **To what, where:** axe handle

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t6:1
# text = What was chilling on the axe handle, mate?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chill** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the axe handle and mate |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Some bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t6:o1:1
# text = Some bird
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	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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A crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t6:o2:1
# text = A crow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Three small sparrows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t6:o3:1
# text = Three small sparrows
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Three little doves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1154-pg3027-part20:t6:o4:1
# text = Three little doves
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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