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title: Mate, what did her dad bring her back from the fair? — Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did her dad bring her back from the fair? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

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Mate, what did her dad bring her back from the fair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** bring back · **To what, where:** her, fair

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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/759-pg2591-part35/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t4:1
# text = Mate, what did her dad bring her back from the fair?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | past · do-support | her dad |  | her *= she* | the fair |  | Mate *vocative* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme she=Destination |

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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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A pearl necklace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t4:o1:1
# text = A pearl necklace
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pearl	pearl	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	necklace	necklace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A dishful of peas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t4:o2:1
# text = A dishful of peas
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dishful	dishful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A hazel twig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t4:o3:1
# text = A hazel twig
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A pair of slippers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t4:o4:1
# text = A pair of slippers
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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