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title: so what did the dad tell the mom to do? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Els… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what did the dad tell the mom to do? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» 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 13 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

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so what did the dad tell the mom to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** tell, do · **To what, where:** mom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» 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/757-pg2591-part33/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t13:1
# text = so what did the dad tell the mom to do?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the dad |  | the mom |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient mom=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | the dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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go to bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t13:o1:1
# text = go to bed
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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fetch the beer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t13:o2:1
# text = fetch the beer
1	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the beer |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bring Elsie the beer now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t13:o3:1
# text = bring Elsie the beer now
1	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | the beer | Elsie |  | now |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent elsie=Destination beer=Theme |

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

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go see where Elsie is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t13:o4:1
# text = go see where Elsie is
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
4	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | present | Elsie |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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