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title: Bro, what was she pretending to be all along? — Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what was she pretending to be all along? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» 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 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the kin…

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Bro, what was she pretending to be all along?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** pretend, be · **To what, where:** Bro

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» 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/787-pg2591-part63/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t6:1
# text = Bro, what was she pretending to be all along?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past · progressive | she | Bro |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all, along *property* | tree rules |

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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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A dirty cook's girl, a proper Cinderella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t6:o1:1
# text = A dirty cook's girl, a proper Cinderella
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A furry beggar, like a proper Cinderella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t6:o2:1
# text = A furry beggar, like a proper Cinderella
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	furry	furry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A scruffy kitchen skivvy, like a proper Cinderella out of a story book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t6:o3:1
# text = A scruffy kitchen skivvy, like a proper Cinderella out of a story book
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	scruffy	scruffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	skivvy	skivvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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A scruffy kitchen skivvy, like a proper Cinderella

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:787-pg2591-part63:t6:o4:1
# text = A scruffy kitchen skivvy, like a proper Cinderella
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	scruffy	scruffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	skivvy	skivvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Cinderella	cinderella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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