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title: Wait, what was the kitchen-maid's bother about, mate? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what was the kitchen-maid's bother about, mate? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1573 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin tricks three one-eyed hags for magic gifts, then saves the Princess from the first Troll while Ritter Red takes the credit.» of the books course of Mova's prima
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# Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

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Wait, what was the kitchen-maid's bother about, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** bother

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1573 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin tricks three one-eyed hags for magic gifts, then saves the Princess from the first Troll while Ritter Red takes the credit.» 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/1573-pg540-part70/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1573-pg540-part70:t12:1
# text = Wait, what was the kitchen-maid's bother about, mate?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	bother	bother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the kitchen maid's bother |  |  |  | mate *nmod* | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Whether he got the hoops fairly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1573-pg540-part70:t12:o1:1
# text = Whether he got the hoops fairly
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hoops	hoop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | he | the hoops |  |  |  | fairly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hoop=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The hoops' price

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1573-pg540-part70:t12:o2:1
# text = The hoops' price
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hoops	hoop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	price	price	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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His pay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1573-pg540-part70:t12:o3:1
# text = His pay
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Whether he'd lost the Princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1573-pg540-part70:t12:o4:1
# text = Whether he'd lost the Princess
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect | he | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |

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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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