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title: Pursuant to the narrative, which substance did the cook fail to add… — English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pursuant to the narrative, which substance did the cook fail to add to the wedding dishes? Exam question 1 of lesson 1950 «English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel reveals the girl in rushes, and her father learns how much she loved him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, wi
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# Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel rev…

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Pursuant to the narrative, which substance did the cook fail to add to the wedding dishes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** narrative · **What happens:** do, add · **To what, where:** cook fail

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1950 «English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel reveals the girl in rushes, and her father learns how much she loved him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1950-pg7439-part9/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1950-pg7439-part9:e1:1
# text = Pursuant to the narrative, which substance did the cook fail to add to the wedding dishes?
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the narrative | the cook fail |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fail=Eventuality |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the narrative *not said here* | the cook fail *not said here* |  |  |  | to the wedding dishes | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to dish=Co-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 {#o1}

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honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1950-pg7439-part9:e1:o1:1
# text = honey
1	honey	honey	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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spice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1950-pg7439-part9:e1:o2:1
# text = spice
1	spice	spice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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fat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1950-pg7439-part9:e1:o3:1
# text = fat
1	fat	fat	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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salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1950-pg7439-part9:e1:o4:1
# text = salt
1	salt	salt	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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