--- title: Wicked, what face did the stepmum pull when chasing them? — Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik,… · tree and pragmatics description: Wicked, what face did the stepmum pull when chasing them? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/698-pg2435-part38/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/698-pg2435-part38/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre… Wicked, what face did the stepmum pull when chasing them? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** face, stepmum · **What happens:** do, pull, chase · **To what, where:** stepmum This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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/698-pg2435-part38/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t4:1 # text = Wicked, what face did the stepmum pull when chasing them? 1 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 4 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stepmum stepmum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | face | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 2 | **pull** | present | the stepmum | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **chase** | gerund | the stepmum *not said here* | stepmum | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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} a sneer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t4:o1:1 # text = a sneer 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sneer sneer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a face like a storm cloud ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t4:o2:1 # text = a face like a storm cloud 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} a face uglier than a witch's ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t4:o3:1 # text = a face uglier than a witch's 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 uglier ugly ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 4 than than ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a sour look of spite ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:698-pg2435-part38:t4:o4:1 # text = a sour look of spite 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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