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title: Mate, what did the sisters even talk about all day? — Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the sisters even talk about all day? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1429 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end and Cinderella's wish for the ball» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end an…

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Mate, what did the sisters even talk about all day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate, sisters · **What happens:** do, talk

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1429 «Perrault's Tales, Cinderella, part 16: the Ogress's end and Cinderella's wish for the ball» 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/1429-pg503-part16/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t9:1
# text = Mate, what did the sisters even talk about all day?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | present | the sisters |  |  |  | day |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Nothing but what to eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t9:o1:1
# text = Nothing but what to eat
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	nmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Nothing but what to wear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t9:o2:1
# text = Nothing but what to wear
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing but what gowns, jewels and ribbons they would wear to the royal ball next week

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t9:o3:1
# text = Nothing but what gowns, jewels and ribbons they would wear to the royal ball next week
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	gowns	gown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | would | Nothing |  |  |  | week | to the royal ball | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing but what to wear to the ball and who would dance with whom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1429-pg503-part16:t9:o4:1
# text = Nothing but what to wear to the ball and who would dance with whom
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	1	cc	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the ball | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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