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title: What did the Great Huge Bear's chair get squashed by? — Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bear… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Great Huge Bear's chair get squashed by? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…

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What did the Great Huge Bear's chair get squashed by?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, squash · **To what, where:** chair

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» 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/1915-pg7277-part52/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t9:1
# text = What did the Great Huge Bear's chair get squashed by?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Great Huge Bear's chair |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Eventuality |
| 2 | **squash** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together» |

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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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a sat-on pillow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t9:o1:1
# text = a sat-on pillow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	sat	sat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a broken chair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t9:o2:1
# text = a broken chair
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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

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a sat-on cushion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t9:o3:1
# text = a sat-on cushion
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	sat	sat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a sat-on cushion that was very flat and hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1915-pg7277-part52:t9:o4:1
# text = a sat-on cushion that was very flat and hard
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	sat	sat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a sat cushion |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a sat cushion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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