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title: what made the baby cry non stop? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderel… · tree and pragmatics
description: what made the baby cry non stop? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1534 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the golden hemlock and the burnt reindeer skin» 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 was w
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# Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the gol…

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what made the baby cry non stop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** make, cry, stop · **To what, where:** baby

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1534 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the golden hemlock and the burnt reindeer skin» 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/1534-pg540-part31/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1534-pg540-part31:t9:1
# text = what made the baby cry non stop?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	non	non	ADV	AFX	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the baby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | the baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** | infinitive | the baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | non *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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}

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missing its mum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1534-pg540-part31:t9:o1:1
# text = missing its mum
1	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | gerund |  | its mum |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sore tooth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1534-pg540-part31:t9:o2:1
# text = a sore tooth
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tooth	tooth	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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hunger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1534-pg540-part31:t9:o3:1
# text = hunger
1	hunger	hunger	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 {#o4}

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wet cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1534-pg540-part31:t9:o4:1
# text = wet cloth
1	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cloth	cloth	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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