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title: no cap, why did Gretel take that first swig? — Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, why did Gretel take that first swig? Test 5 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

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no cap, why did Gretel take that first swig?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gretel · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** first swig

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This is test 5 · ★ 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. 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t5:1
# text = no cap, why did Gretel take that first swig?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	swig	swig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | Gretel | that first swig |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swig=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Thirst

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t5:o1:1
# text = Thirst
1	Thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Gladness of heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t5:o2:1
# text = Gladness of heart
1	Gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Fear of the master

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t5:o3:1
# text = Fear of the master
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** |  |  | the master |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Joy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t5:o4:1
# text = Joy
1	Joy	Joy	PROPN	NNP	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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