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title: Mate, what did she put in the soup at the second feast, the spoon or… — Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did she put in the soup at the second feast, the spoon or the spinning-wheel? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1924 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the ring, the reel and the wedding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the rin…

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Mate, what did she put in the soup at the second feast, the spoon or the spinning-wheel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** put · **To what, where:** soup

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1924 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Many-Furred Creature: the ring, the reel and the wedding» 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/1924-pg7277-part61/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t3:1
# text = Mate, what did she put in the soup at the second feast, the spoon or the spinning-wheel?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · do-support | she |  |  | the soup |  | at the second feast and the spoon or the spinning wheel; Mate *vocative* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme in soup=Destination |

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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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the silver spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t3:o1:1
# text = the silver spoon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	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 golden ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t3:o2:1
# text = a golden ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ring	ring	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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the spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t3:o3:1
# text = the spoon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the golden spinning-wheel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1924-pg7277-part61:t3:o4:1
# text = the golden spinning-wheel
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	wheel	wheel	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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