--- title: Dead mean stepmum, where did she chuck the girl? — Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook… · tree and pragmatics description: Dead mean stepmum, where did she chuck the girl? Test 5 · ★ 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 an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1576-pg540-part73/t5/) [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/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth… Dead mean stepmum, where did she chuck the girl? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, she · **What happens:** mean, chuck · **To what, where:** stepmum, girl This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t5:1 # text = Dead mean stepmum, where did she chuck the girl? 1 Dead dead ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 stepmum stepmum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 6 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 chuck chuck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | imperative | you *not said here* | stepmum | | | | dead *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepmum=Topic | | 2 | **chuck** | past · do-support | she | the girl | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | 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} the pig-sty ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t5:o1:1 # text = the pig-sty 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 sty sty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the dirty pig-sty at the bottom of the garden ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t5:o2:1 # text = the dirty pig-sty at the bottom of the garden 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 sty sty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the muddy pig-sty out back ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t5:o3:1 # text = the muddy pig-sty out back 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 sty sty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the cellar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1576-pg540-part73:t5:o4:1 # text = the cellar 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cellar cellar 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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