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title: What did the mill produce when it flooded the kitchen? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the mill produce when it flooded the kitchen? Exam question 4 of lesson 1446 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper buys the magic mill for salt» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

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What did the mill produce when it flooded the kitchen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** produce · **What happens:** do, flood · **To what, where:** mill produce, kitchen

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1446 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper buys the magic mill for salt» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1446-pg503-part33/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e4:1
# text = What did the mill produce when it flooded the kitchen?
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	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	produce	produce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flooded	flood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the mill produce |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent produce=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flood** | past | produce | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kitchen=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 {#o1}

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Salt and fresh oat cakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e4:o1:1
# text = Salt and fresh oat cakes
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	oat	oat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Oats and barley bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e4:o2:1
# text = Oats and barley bread
1	Oats	oat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Herrings and milk pottage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e4:o3:1
# text = Herrings and milk pottage
1	Herrings	herring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pottage	pottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Milk only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e4:o4:1
# text = Milk only
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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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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