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title: Mate, who actually ate the grandma, innit? — Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hoo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, who actually ate the grandma, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1426 «Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks the girl and eats her and her grandmother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 1 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…

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Mate, who actually ate the grandma, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** eat, innit · **To what, where:** grandma

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1426 «Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks the girl and eats her and her grandmother» 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/1426-pg503-part13/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1426-pg503-part13:t1:1
# text = Mate, who actually ate the grandma, innit?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Mate | the grandma |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Patient |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | Mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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The grandmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1426-pg503-part13:t1:o1:1
# text = The grandmother
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grandmother	grandmother	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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Grandma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1426-pg503-part13:t1:o2:1
# text = Grandma
1	Grandma	grandma	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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The huntsman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1426-pg503-part13:t1:o3:1
# text = The huntsman
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The wolf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1426-pg503-part13:t1:o4:1
# text = The wolf
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	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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