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title: What stuff did the millers pick up? — English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What stuff did the millers pick up? Test 9 · ★ 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 option; Mov
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# Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

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What stuff did the millers pick up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** stuff, millers · **What happens:** do, pick up

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t9:1
# text = What stuff did the millers pick up?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	millers	miller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what stuff |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pick up** | infinitive | the millers |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a millstone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t9:o1:1
# text = a millstone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	millstone	millstone	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 big boulder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t9:o2:1
# text = a big boulder
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boulder	boulder	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 grindstone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t9:o3:1
# text = a grindstone
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grindstone	grindstone	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 heavy millstone from the mill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1945-pg7439-part4:t9:o4:1
# text = a heavy millstone from the mill
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	millstone	millstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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