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title: Real talk, what was Jem at the top of the kitchen? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what was Jem at the top of the kitchen? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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 9 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

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Real talk, what was Jem at the top of the kitchen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Jem, top

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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/1789-pg641-part40/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t9:1
# text = Real talk, what was Jem at the top of the kitchen?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Real talk | Jem |  | the top of the kitchen |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Head butler

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t9:o1:1
# text = Head butler
1	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	butler	butler	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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Head pastrycook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t9:o2:1
# text = Head pastrycook
1	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pastrycook	pastrycook	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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Assistant to the head cook in the great kitchen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t9:o3:1
# text = Assistant to the head cook in the great kitchen
1	Assistant	assistant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Head pastrycook of the whole kitchen staff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t9:o4:1
# text = Head pastrycook of the whole kitchen staff
1	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pastrycook	pastrycook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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