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title: Wait, what did the stepmum use to chop her? — English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the stepmum use to chop her? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

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Wait, what did the stepmum use to chop her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, stepmum · **What happens:** wait, do, use, chop · **To what, where:** her

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» 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/1945-pg7439-part4/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t3:1
# text = Wait, what did the stepmum use to chop her?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present | the stepmum |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **chop** | to-infinitive | the stepmum *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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 spade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t3:o1:1
# text = a spade
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spade	spade	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 saw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t3:o2:1
# text = a saw
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saw	saw	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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a hammer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t3:o3:1
# text = a hammer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hammer	hammer	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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an axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t3:o4:1
# text = an axe
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	axe	axe	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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