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title: What did the cook's master intend to do with the guest, according to… — Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the cook's master intend to do with the guest, according to Gretel's warning? Exam question 3 of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Exam question 3 · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

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What did the cook's master intend to do with the guest, according to Gretel's warning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** master, Gretel · **What happens:** intend, do, accord, warn

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/750-pg2591-part26/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:e3:1
# text = What did the cook's master intend to do with the guest, according to Gretel's warning?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	intend	intend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | past · do-support | the cook's master |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the cook's master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the guest; accord Gretel's warning | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **warn** |  | Gretel |  |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cut off both ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:e3:o1:1
# text = Cut off both ears
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | imperative | you *not said here* | both ears |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ear=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cut both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:e3:o2:1
# text = Cut both
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | both |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset both=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cut off his nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:e3:o3:1
# text = Cut off his nose
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | imperative | you *not said here* | his nose |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector nose=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cut off ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:e3:o4:1
# text = Cut off ears
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | imperative | you *not said here* | ears |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ear=Eventuality |

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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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