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title: What did the cook say about the kid, like? — English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the cook say about the kid, like? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 263 «English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father is found» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and h…

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What did the cook say about the kid, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, say · **To what, where:** cook · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 263 «English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father is found» 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/263-pg14241-part30/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t12:1
# text = What did the cook say about the kid, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the cook |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  | about the kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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Such dirty beggars' brats have no place in a proper house and should be whipped out

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t12:o1:1
# text = Such dirty beggars' brats have no place in a proper house and should be whipped out
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	brats	brat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	whipped	whip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Such dirty beggars's brats | no place |  | a proper house |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 2 | **whip out** | should · passive | Such dirty beggars's brats *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Beggars should stay in the street

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t12:o2:1
# text = Beggars should stay in the street
1	Beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | should | Beggars |  |  | the street |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Such brats never learn manners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t12:o3:1
# text = Such brats never learn manners
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brats	brat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **learn** | present | Such brats | manners |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Topic |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Beggars' brats take to one another

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:263-pg14241-part30:t12:o4:1
# text = Beggars' brats take to one another
1	Beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	brats	brat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Beggars's brats | one |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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