--- title: what happened when the stepsister talked? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little… · tree and pragmatics description: what happened when the stepsister talked? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 127 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, part 1: a stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the snow for strawberries» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/127-pg11027-part30/t6/) [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 Fairy Tales, The Three Little…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/127-pg11027-part30/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, par… what happened when the stepsister talked? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stepsister · **What happens:** talk This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 127 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Little Men in the Wood, part 1: a stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the snow for strawberries» 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/127-pg11027-part30/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:127-pg11027-part30:t6:1 # text = what happened when the stepsister talked? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stepsister stepsister NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 talked talk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | past | the stepsister | | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=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} a bug came out, mad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:127-pg11027-part30:t6:o1:1 # text = a bug came out, mad 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bug bug NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | a bug | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} toads jumped out, mad gross ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:127-pg11027-part30:t6:o2:1 # text = toads jumped out, mad gross 1 toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 gross gross NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump out** | past | toads | mad gross | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} frogs leapt out, mad gross ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:127-pg11027-part30:t6:o3:1 # text = frogs leapt out, mad gross 1 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 leapt leapt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 gross gross NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leapt out** | present | frogs | mad gross | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} toads, gross ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:127-pg11027-part30:t6:o4:1 # text = toads, gross 1 toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 gross gross NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` 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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