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title: Real talk, what did the stepmum chuck into the ashes? — Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what did the stepmum chuck into the ashes? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

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Real talk, what did the stepmum chuck into the ashes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Real talk · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** stepmum chuck, ashes

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t7:1
# text = Real talk, what did the stepmum chuck into the ashes?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chuck	chuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Real talk | the stepmum chuck |  | the ashes |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A dishful of peas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t7:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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A bowl of crumbs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t7:o2:1
# text = A bowl of crumbs
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A bag of flour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t7:o3:1
# text = A bag of flour
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A dish of pearls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:759-pg2591-part35:t7:o4:1
# text = A dish of pearls
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pearls	pearl	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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