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title: Yo, what did the maidens do before dipping out? — Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a cra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the maidens do before dipping out? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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
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# Test 7 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yo, what did the maidens do before dipping out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** maidens · **What happens:** do, dip out

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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/1456-pg503-part43/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1456-pg503-part43:t7:1
# text = Yo, what did the maidens do before dipping out?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the maidens |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dip out** | gerund | the maidens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Baked a cake with poison in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1456-pg503-part43:t7:o1:1
# text = Baked a cake with poison in it
1	Baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | participle |  | a cake |  |  |  | with poison in poison | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cake=Patient with poison=Instrument |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Baked a pie with venom in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1456-pg503-part43:t7:o2:1
# text = Baked a pie with venom in it
1	Baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | participle |  | a pie |  |  |  | with venom in venom | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pie=Patient with venom=Instrument |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Baked a sweet cake with poison in it and gave it to the old witch to eat

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1456-pg503-part43:t7:o3:1
# text = Baked a sweet cake with poison in it and gave it to the old witch to eat
1	Baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | participle |  | a sweet cake |  |  |  | with poison in poison | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cake=Patient with poison=Instrument |
| 2 | **give** | past |  | cake | the old witch |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to witch=Recipient |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cooked a meal with poison

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1456-pg503-part43:t7:o4:1
# text = Cooked a meal with poison
1	Cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | participle |  | a meal |  |  |  | with poison | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent meal=Patient with poison=Instrument |

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