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title: Why did the miller's daughter get kicked out at dawn? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stov… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the miller's daughter get kicked out at dawn? Test 7 · ★ 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 optio
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# Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Iron Stove, part 1: the princ…

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Why did the miller's daughter get kicked out at dawn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** kick out · **To what, where:** daughter

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t7:1
# text = Why did the miller's daughter get kicked out at dawn?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	kicked	kick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick out** | past · passive · do-support |  | the miller's daughter |  |  | dawn |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cos the voice clocked she was a miller's daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t7:o1:1
# text = Cos the voice clocked she was a miller's daughter
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	clocked	clock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clock** | past | the voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | voice | a miller's daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cos the voice wanted a toad instead, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t7:o2:1
# text = Cos the voice wanted a toad instead, lol
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the voice | a toad |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toad=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Cos the voice wanted her to scrape faster, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t7:o3:1
# text = Cos the voice wanted her to scrape faster, lol
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the voice | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scrape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cos the voice wanted a horn blown, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1685-pg640-part9:t7:o4:1
# text = Cos the voice wanted a horn blown, lol
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  | a horn |  |  |  | cos the voice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horn=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | participle |  | a horn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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