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title: What did the judges have on their chairs, the squishy stuff? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the judges have on their chairs, the squishy stuff? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

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What did the judges have on their chairs, the squishy stuff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** judges · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** chairs

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» 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/1009-pg27200-part220/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t5:1
# text = What did the judges have on their chairs, the squishy stuff?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	squishy	squishy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the judges |  |  | judges's chairs and the squishy stuff |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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soft eider-down cushions filled with goose feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t5:o1:1
# text = soft eider-down cushions filled with goose feathers
1	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	eider	eider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | participle |  | soft down cushions *not said here* |  |  |  | with goose feathers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with feather=Instrument |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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heavy embroidered silk cushions from the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t5:o2:1
# text = heavy embroidered silk cushions from the palace
1	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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silk cushions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t5:o3:1
# text = silk cushions
1	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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eider-down cushions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t5:o4:1
# text = eider-down cushions
1	eider	eider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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