--- title: Was the butler still sipping his ale, like, mint? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spi… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the butler still sipping his ale, like, mint? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/731-pg2591-part7/t8/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/731-pg2591-part7/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundre… Was the butler still sipping his ale, like, mint? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** butler · **What happens:** sip · **To what, where:** ale This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 731 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: a spindle prick, a hundred years' sleep, and a prince's kiss» 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/731-pg2591-part7/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t8:1 # text = Was the butler still sipping his ale, like, mint? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 butler butler NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sipping sip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ale ale NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 like like INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sip** | past · progressive | the butler | butler's ale and mint | | | still | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient | 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} nah, he was gone ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t8:o1:1 # text = nah, he was gone 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} yep, frozen mid-sip with his cup up ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t8:o2:1 # text = yep, frozen mid-sip with his cup up 1 yep yep INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 mid-sip mid-sip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze up** | participle | | mid-sip | | | | with his cup | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mid-sip=Patient with cup=Instrument | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} yep, frozen mid-sip ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t8:o3:1 # text = yep, frozen mid-sip 1 yep yep INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 mid-sip mid-sip NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} nope, he dropped the cup and ran off ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:731-pg2591-part7:t8:o4:1 # text = nope, he dropped the cup and ran off 1 nope nope INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 off off ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | past | he | the cup | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | | 2 | **run off** | past | he *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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