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title: Yo, how did the Three Bears' porridge look to the old woman? — English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Cast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how did the Three Bears' porridge look to the old woman? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

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Yo, how did the Three Bears' porridge look to the old woman?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** porridge · **What happens:** look

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» 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/1956-pg7439-part15/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t8:1
# text = Yo, how did the Three Bears' porridge look to the old woman?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Bears	Bear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | porridge |  |  |  |  | to the old woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to woman=Theme |

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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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so hot that it steamed and burned her tongue at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t8:o1:1
# text = so hot that it steamed and burned her tongue at once
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	steamed	steam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steam** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **burn** | past |  | her tongue |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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neither too hot nor too cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t8:o2:1
# text = neither too hot nor too cold
1	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
neither too hot nor too cold, but just right for eating

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t8:o3:1
# text = neither too hot nor too cold, but just right for eating
1	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
very thick and very sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1956-pg7439-part15:t8:o4:1
# text = very thick and very sweet
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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