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title: Did she find the toads' house at night, or what? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stov… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did she find the toads' house at night, or what? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princ…

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Did she find the toads' house at night, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** house

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1685 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princess promises help and loses her way home» 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/1685-pg640-part9/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t11:1
# text = Did she find the toads' house at night, or what?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · do-support | she | the toads's house |  |  | night |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent house=Theme what=Attribute |

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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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Nah, at dusk, after she met a witch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t11:o1:1
# text = Nah, at dusk, after she met a witch
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | she | a witch |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, at noon, after she fell asleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t11:o2:1
# text = Nah, at noon, after she fell asleep
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | she | noon *not said here* |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient noon=Result |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Yeah, at midnight, after she climbed a tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t11:o3:1
# text = Yeah, at midnight, after she climbed a tree
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | she | a tree |  |  | midnight |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nah, at dawn, after she ate roast meats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t11:o4:1
# text = Nah, at dawn, after she ate roast meats
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | she | roast meats |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |

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