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title: Did the thirsty man really drink the whole cellar? — Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the thirsty man really drink the whole cellar? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1580 «Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky sisters and the wedding» 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 r
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# Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky si…

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Did the thirsty man really drink the whole cellar?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, drink · **To what, where:** thirsty man, whole cellar

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1580 «Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky sisters and the wedding» 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/1580-pg540-part77/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t8:1
# text = Did the thirsty man really drink the whole cellar?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the thirsty man |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drink** | present |  | the whole cellar |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellar=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, every drop before the day was done

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t8:o1:1
# text = Yeah, every drop before the day was done
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | the day |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, every drop by lunchtime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t8:o2:1
# text = Yeah, every drop by lunchtime
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he only had a sip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t8:o3:1
# text = Nah, he only had a sip
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sip	sip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | he | a sip |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sip=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, all of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t8:o4:1
# text = Yeah, all of it
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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