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title: Was the cow actually dry, like, no milk at all? — Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the cow actually dry, like, no milk at all? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 727 «Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades his goose for a grindstone» 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
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades…

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Was the cow actually dry, like, no milk at all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cow

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 727 «Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades his goose for a grindstone» 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/727-pg2591-part3/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t4:1
# text = Was the cow actually dry, like, no milk at all?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	csubj	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the cow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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yes, totally dry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t4:o1:1
# text = yes, totally dry
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yes, quite dry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t4:o2:1
# text = yes, quite dry
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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no, a little milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t4:o3:1
# text = no, a little milk
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t4:o4:1
# text = yes
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	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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