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title: did the King really chop his own kids' heads off? that's bare grim — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, Jo… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the King really chop his own kids' heads off? that's bare grim Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…

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did the King really chop his own kids' heads off? that's bare grim

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** King, that · **What happens:** chop off, be · **To what, where:** heads

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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/1483-pg503-part70/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t3:1
# text = did the King really chop his own kids' heads off? that's bare grim
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop off** | past · do-support | the King | King's own kids's heads |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | grim *property* | 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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Yes, to revive the statue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t3:o1:1
# text = Yes, to revive the statue
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	revive	revive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revive** | to-infinitive |  | the statue |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent statue=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, just a rumour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t3:o2:1
# text = No, just a rumour
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rumour	rumour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, to save the stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, to save the stone
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | to-infinitive |  | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, to bring John back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t3:o4:1
# text = Yeah, to bring John back
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | to-infinitive |  |  | John |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument john=Destination |

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