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title: Yo, how did the peasant lady sneakily trick Snowdrop? — Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how did the peasant lady sneakily trick Snowdrop? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1579 «Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, the glass coffin and the wicked Queen's end» 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 w
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# Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, the glass coffin and…

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Yo, how did the peasant lady sneakily trick Snowdrop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** peasant lady

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1579 «Grimm, Snowdrop: the poisoned apple, the glass coffin and the wicked Queen's end» 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/1579-pg540-part76/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1579-pg540-part76:t3:1
# text = Yo, how did the peasant lady sneakily trick Snowdrop?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	sneakily	sneakily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the peasant lady  sneakily trick |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=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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she ate the red half first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1579-pg540-part76:t3:o1:1
# text = she ate the red half first
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	obj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | she | the red half |  |  |  | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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she sang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1579-pg540-part76:t3:o2:1
# text = she sang
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she bit the stem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1579-pg540-part76:t3:o3:1
# text = she bit the stem
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bit	bite	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	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | past | she | the stem |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she smiled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1579-pg540-part76:t3:o4:1
# text = she smiled
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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