--- title: Who was sat at the steering bit? — Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook… · tree and pragmatics description: Who was sat at the steering bit? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1576-pg540-part73/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1576-pg540-part73/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth… Who was sat at the steering bit? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** steering bit This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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/1576-pg540-part73/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t11:1 # text = Who was sat at the steering bit? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 steering steering NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past · passive | | | | the steering bit | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at bit=Location | 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} the brother at the steering bit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t11:o1:1 # text = the brother at the steering bit 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 steering steering NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the brother ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t11:o2:1 # text = the brother 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} her brother, the stable-boy who swapped clothes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t11:o3:1 # text = her brother, the stable-boy who swapped clothes 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 stable stable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 swapped swap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swap** | past | the stable boy | | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} the sister ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t11:o4:1 # text = the sister 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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