--- title: What's Elsie's big mistake, like, in one word? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in… · tree and pragmatics description: What's Elsie's big mistake, like, in one word? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 758 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Elsie runs off, and a servant turns a miser's money into a dancing bush» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/758-pg2591-part34/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/758-pg2591-part34/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Els… What's Elsie's big mistake, like, in one word? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big mistake This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 758 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Miser in the Bush: Clever Elsie runs off, and a servant turns a miser's money into a dancing bush» 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/758-pg2591-part34/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t9:1 # text = What's Elsie's big mistake, like, in one word? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 Elsie Elsie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 like like INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | Elsie's big mistake | | | | | tree rules | 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} Dozing off ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t9:o1:1 # text = Dozing off 1 Dozing doze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 off off ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **doze off** | gerund | | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Sleeping ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t9:o2:1 # text = Sleeping 1 Sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Falling asleep in the corn field ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t9:o3:1 # text = Falling asleep in the corn field 1 Falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | gerund | | | | the corn field | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} Sleeping instead of cutting the corn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:758-pg2591-part34:t9:o4:1 # text = Sleeping instead of cutting the corn 1 Sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 4 mark _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cut** | gerund | | the corn | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product | **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. 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