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title: Calm down, what did Snow-white use to cut the beard? — Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 6… · tree and pragmatics
description: Calm down, what did Snow-white use to cut the beard? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befri…

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Calm down, what did Snow-white use to cut the beard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** calm down, do, cut · **To what, where:** white use, beard

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» 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/788-pg2591-part64/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t12:1
# text = Calm down, what did Snow-white use to cut the beard?
1	Calm	calm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	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	1	parataxis	_	_
6	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **calm down** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | white use |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cut** | to-infinitive |  | the beard |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beard=Product |

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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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Her scissors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t12:o1:1
# text = Her scissors
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Her needle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t12:o2:1
# text = Her needle
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A long pair of garden shears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t12:o3:1
# text = A long pair of garden shears
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	shears	shear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A small axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:788-pg2591-part64:t12:o4:1
# text = A small axe
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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