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title: what did the cooking pot need to cook stuff? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the cooking pot need to cook stuff? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1342 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last arrow slays the monster» 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 was rig
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# Test 14 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last…

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what did the cooking pot need to cook stuff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cooking pot · **What happens:** do, need, cook · **To what, where:** stuff

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1342 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Hidesato and the Centipede: the last arrow slays the monster» 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/1342-pg4018-part2/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t14:1
# text = what did the cooking pot need to cook stuff?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present | the cooking pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **cook** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the cooking pot *not said here* | stuff |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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no firing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t14:o1:1
# text = no firing at all
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	firing	firing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a little fire under it, and then it cooked the rice on its own

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t14:o2:1
# text = a little fire under it, and then it cooked the rice on its own
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | past | a little fire under it | the rice |  |  | then | on fire's own | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rice=Patient on own=Instrument |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no flames needed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t14:o3:1
# text = no flames needed
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | participle |  | no flames *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no firing at all, so the cook never needed wood or coal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1342-pg4018-part2:t14:o4:1
# text = no firing at all, so the cook never needed wood or coal
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	firing	firing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | past | no firing at all and the cook | wood or coal |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wood=Theme |

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