--- title: Ngl, what was the captain's wife cooking that night? — Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph t… · tree and pragmatics description: Ngl, what was the captain's wife cooking that night? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1639-pg5615-part28/t12/) [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/) / [Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1639-pg5615-part28/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2… Ngl, what was the captain's wife cooking that night? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** wife cooking This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» 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/1639-pg5615-part28/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t12:1 # text = Ngl, what was the captain's wife cooking that night? 1 Ngl Ngl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 cooking cooking NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Ngl | the captain's wife cooking | | | night | | tree rules | 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} Lasagne ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t12:o1:1 # text = Lasagne 1 Lasagne lasagne NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Macaroni ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t12:o2:1 # text = Macaroni 1 Macaroni macaroni NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Macaroni with cheese and a little bit of butter ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t12:o3:1 # text = Macaroni with cheese and a little bit of butter 1 Macaroni macaroni NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Spaghetti and macaroni served with sauce and bread ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t12:o4:1 # text = Spaghetti and macaroni served with sauce and bread 1 Spaghetti spaghetti NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 macaroni macaroni NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 sauce sauce NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **serve** | participle | | Spaghetti and macaroni *not said here* | | | | with sauce and bread | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sauce=Theme | **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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