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description: Sis, what was the princess doing with her hair that made Curdken stare? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 737 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid takes the bride's place and Curdken spies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid tak…

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Sis, what was the princess doing with her hair that made Curdken stare?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sis, princess, hair, Curdken · **What happens:** be, do, make, stare · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 737 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 13: the maid takes the bride's place and Curdken spies» 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/737-pg2591-part13/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t7:1
# text = Sis, what was the princess doing with her hair that made Curdken stare?
1	Sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stare	stare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Sis | the princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with princess's hair | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | princess's hair |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stare** | infinitive | Curdken |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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combing out her silver locks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t7:o1:1
# text = combing out her silver locks
1	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	locks	lock	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comb out** | gerund |  | her silver |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Patient |
| 2 | **lock** | present | combing |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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braiding gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t7:o2:1
# text = braiding gold
1	braiding	braid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **braid** | gerund |  | gold |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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washing her silver hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t7:o3:1
# text = washing her silver hair
1	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | gerund |  | her silver hair |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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combing her hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:737-pg2591-part13:t7:o4:1
# text = combing her hair
1	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comb** | gerund |  | her hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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