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title: Who sorted out the shepherd's cleaning, dude? — Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who sorted out the shepherd's cleaning, dude? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 754 «Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lovers, Roland forgets, and Snowdrop is sent into the wood» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

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Who sorted out the shepherd's cleaning, dude?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** shepherd · **What happens:** sort out, clean · **To what, where:** cleaning

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 754 «Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lovers, Roland forgets, and Snowdrop is sent into the wood» 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/754-pg2591-part30/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t9:1
# text = Who sorted out the shepherd's cleaning, dude?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sorted	sort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort out** | past |  | the shepherd's cleaning and dude |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Theme |
| 2 | **clean** |  | the shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom cleaning «act intransitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The flower-girl, by magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t9:o1:1
# text = The flower-girl, by magic
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The flower-girl, using magic she learned from the wise woman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t9:o2:1
# text = The flower-girl, using magic she learned from the wise woman
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund | the flower girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **learn** | past | girl magic |  |  |  |  | from the wise woman | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from woman=Source |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The wise woman, by spells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t9:o3:1
# text = The wise woman, by spells
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The flower-girl, who cleaned the whole house in one night by magic.

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t9:o4:1
# text = The flower-girl, who cleaned the whole house in one night by magic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | past | the flower girl | the whole house |  |  | night | by magic | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient |

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