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title: test: Lol, who was the stepmum trying to ditch? — Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Lol, who was the stepmum trying to ditch? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

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test: Lol, who was the stepmum trying to ditch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** test, stepmum · **What happens:** be, try, ditch · **To what, where:** stepmum

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» 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/1726-pg640-part50/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t4:1
# text = test: Lol, who was the stepmum trying to ditch?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	ditch	ditch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | test and the stepmum | the stepmum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | the stepmum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ditch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the stepmum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the twins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t4:o1:1
# text = the twins
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t4:o2:1
# text = the cat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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their father

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t4:o3:1
# text = their father
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t4:o4:1
# text = the girl
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	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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