--- title: Into which place did the Princess's mother cast the crab-shell after… — Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Cr… · tree and pragmatics description: Into which place did the Princess's mother cast the crab-shell after she discovered it? Exam question 4 of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1684-pg640-part8/e4/) [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/) / [Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Cr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1684-pg640-part8/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab… Into which place did the Princess's mother cast the crab-shell after she discovered it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** place, mother · **What happens:** do, cast, discover · **To what, where:** crab shell, shell This is exam question 4 of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1684-pg640-part8/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e4:1 # text = Into which place did the Princess's mother cast the crab-shell after she discovered it? 1 Into into ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which place | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cast** | past | the Princess's mother | the crab shell | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Product | | 3 | **discover** | past | mother | shell | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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 sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e4:o1:1 # text = The sea 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The fire ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e4:o2:1 # text = The fire 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A pot ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e4:o3:1 # text = A pot 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The window ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:e4:o4:1 # text = The window 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 window window 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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