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title: ok so Catherine greased the trees with BUTTER, right? — Household Tales, Frederick and Catheri… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so Catherine greased the trees with BUTTER, right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

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ok so Catherine greased the trees with BUTTER, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Catherine · **What happens:** grease · **To what, where:** trees

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» 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/753-pg2591-part29/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t1:1
# text = ok so Catherine greased the trees with BUTTER, right?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	greased	grease	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	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	BUTTER	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grease** | past | Catherine | the trees |  |  |  | with BUTTER | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Destination with butter=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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nah, to stop the horse slipping on it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t1:o1:1
# text = nah, to stop the horse slipping on it
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	slipping	slip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | the horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slip** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on horse | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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nah, to go faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t1:o2:1
# text = nah, to go faster
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nope, for fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t1:o3:1
# text = nope, for fun
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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yep, to stop the wheels hurting them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:753-pg2591-part29:t1:o4:1
# text = yep, to stop the wheels hurting them
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | the wheels |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wheel=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hurt** | gerund |  | wheels *= wheel* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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