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title: what do the youths curse, like, who — Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Cr… · tree and pragmatics
description: what do the youths curse, like, who Test 13 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…

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what do the youths curse, like, who

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** youths · **What happens:** be, curse

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This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t13:1
# text = what do the youths curse, like, who
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	curse	curse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **curse** | present | the youths |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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the wicked stepmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t13:o1:1
# text = the wicked stepmother
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the cruel mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t13:o2:1
# text = the cruel mother
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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the cruel mother who sent them away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t13:o3:1
# text = the cruel mother who sent them away
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send away** | past | the cruel mother | them *= they* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the old fisherman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1684-pg640-part8:t13:o4:1
# text = the old fisherman
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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