--- title: Wait, what's the red-hot pice thing? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princ… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what's the red-hot pice thing? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1846 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1846-pg7128-part30/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princ…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1846-pg7128-part30/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr… Wait, what's the red-hot pice thing? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** red hot pice thing This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1846 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate» 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/1846-pg7128-part30/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t9:1 # text = Wait, what's the red-hot pice thing? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 6 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 pice pice NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the red hot pice thing | | | | | tree rules | 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} A coin on each arm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t9:o1:1 # text = A coin on each arm 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A hot pice pressed onto each brother's back ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t9:o2:1 # text = A hot pice pressed onto each brother's back 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pice pice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 onto onto ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **press** | participle | | a hot pice *not said here* | | each brother's back | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent onto back=Trajectory | ### Option 3 {#o3} A hot coin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t9:o3:1 # text = A hot coin 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} A hot coin on each back ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1846-pg7128-part30:t9:o4:1 # text = A hot coin on each back 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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