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title: fr why did she scrub her face so hard? — Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charn… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr why did she scrub her face so hard? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» 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 11 · ★ · Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved,…

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fr why did she scrub her face so hard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** scrub · **To what, where:** face

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» 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/361-pg18442-part21/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t11:1
# text = fr why did she scrub her face so hard?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	scrub	scrub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrub** | past · do-support | fr | fr's face |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source |

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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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she was dirty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t11:o1:1
# text = she was dirty
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to be clean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t11:o2:1
# text = to be clean
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to hide her brown tint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t11:o3:1
# text = to hide her brown tint
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tint	tint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | to-infinitive |  | her brown tint |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tint=Patient |

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

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to wash off the red paint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:361-pg18442-part21:t11:o4:1
# text = to wash off the red paint
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash off** | to-infinitive |  | the red paint |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Patient |

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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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