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title: who was the dragon's mum bathing in that milk for? — Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: who was the dragon's mum bathing in that milk for? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 10 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…

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who was the dragon's mum bathing in that milk for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mum bathing, milk

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» 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/1769-pg641-part20/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t10:1
# text = who was the dragon's mum bathing in that milk for?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the dragon's mum bathing |  | that milk |  |  | 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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herself, to grow young again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t10:o1:1
# text = herself, to grow young again
1	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | to-infinitive | herself *= she* |  |  |  | again | young *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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for herself, so she could grow young again and dance on the hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t10:o2:1
# text = for herself, so she could grow young again and dance on the hill
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | could | she |  |  |  | again | for herself *= she*; young *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  | the hill |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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for the cows out in the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t10:o3:1
# text = for the cows out in the field
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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for her grandchildren

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t10:o4:1
# text = for her grandchildren
1	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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