--- title: Who had to do the actual head chopping, though? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla… · tree and pragmatics description: Who had to do the actual head chopping, though? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1582-pg540-part79/t10/) [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/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1582-pg540-part79/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a… Who had to do the actual head chopping, though? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** have, do · **To what, where:** actual head chopping This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads 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/1582-pg540-part79/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t10:1 # text = Who had to do the actual head chopping, though? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 actual actual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 chopping chopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 though though SCONJ IN _ 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | | the actual head chopping | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chopping=Eventuality | 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 Foal did it, in the yard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t10:o1:1 # text = The Foal did it, in the yard 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Foal Foal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the Foal | it | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Cinderlad, down in the stable ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t10:o2:1 # text = Cinderlad, down in the stable 1 Cinderlad Cinderlad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 down down ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A servant, out in the field ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t10:o3:1 # text = A servant, out in the field 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 out out ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Troll, grimly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t10:o4:1 # text = The Troll, grimly 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Troll Troll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 grimly grimly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ ``` 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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