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title: what's the old moat like now? — Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Jo… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the old moat like now? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» 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 right
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for Fran…

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what's the old moat like now?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old moat · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» 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/1016-pg27200-part227/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t10:1
# text = what's the old moat like now?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the old moat |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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A wide park with fountains and benches for the public

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t10:o1:1
# text = A wide park with fountains and benches for the public
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	benches	bench	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Little kitchen gardens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t10:o2:1
# text = Little kitchen gardens
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Places where the townsfolk now grow vegetables and herbs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t10:o3:1
# text = Places where the townsfolk now grow vegetables and herbs
1	Places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	townsfolk	townsfolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Places | the townsfolk |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vegetable=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Small vegetable plots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t10:o4:1
# text = Small vegetable plots
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plots	plot	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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