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title: Sick, what did the empress do with the ashes? — Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sick, what did the empress do with the ashes? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 6 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…

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Sick, what did the empress do with the ashes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, empress · **What happens:** sick, do · **To what, where:** empress

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» 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/1802-pg641-part53/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t6:1
# text = Sick, what did the empress do with the ashes?
1	Sick	sick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the empress |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empress=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | present | the empress *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the ashes | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Tossed them to the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t6:o1:1
# text = Tossed them to the wind
1	Tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss** | past |  | them *= they* | the wind |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to wind=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Chucked them to the four winds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t6:o2:1
# text = Chucked them to the four winds
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | participle |  | them *= they* |  | the four winds |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wind=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Threw them to the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t6:o3:1
# text = Threw them to the sea
1	Threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past |  | them *= they* |  | the sea |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to sea=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Binned them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t6:o4:1
# text = Binned them
1	Binned	bin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bin** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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