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title: the mums in town called her what, a little kitchen-maid? — Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: the mums in town called her what, a little kitchen-maid? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» 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 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is…

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the mums in town called her what, a little kitchen-maid?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mums · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** her · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» 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/1869-pg7277-part6/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t7:1
# text = the mums in town called her what, a little kitchen-maid?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mums	mum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the mums in town | her *= she* |  |  |  | a little kitchen maid *obl* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme what=Result |

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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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nah, a scruffy pig-girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t7:o1:1
# text = nah, a scruffy pig-girl
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	scruffy	scruffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, a dirty goose-girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t7:o2:1
# text = yeah, a dirty goose-girl
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, my little kitchen-maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t7:o3:1
# text = yeah, my little kitchen-maid
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
kitchen-maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t7:o4:1
# text = kitchen-maid
1	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	maid	maid	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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