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title: wait, what was the old woman's fire lit with, like? — Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what was the old woman's fire lit with, like? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 730 «Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam» 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 10 · ★ · Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways a…

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wait, what was the old woman's fire lit with, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be, lit · **To what, where:** fire

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 730 «Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam» 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/730-pg2591-part6/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t10:1
# text = wait, what was the old woman's fire lit with, like?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the old woman's fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lit** | participle |  | the old woman's fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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A handful of dry straw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t10:o1:1
# text = A handful of dry straw
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Straw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t10:o2:1
# text = Straw
1	Straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t10:o3:1
# text = Wood
1	Wood	wood	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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Oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t10:o4:1
# text = Oil
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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