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title: what does pickle mean here, like a sour cucumber thing? — Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: what does pickle mean here, like a sour cucumber thing? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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 11 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what does pickle mean here, like a sour cucumber thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pickle · **What happens:** mean

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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/1088-pg29021-part13/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t11:1
# text = what does pickle mean here, like a sour cucumber thing?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	pickle	pickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | pickle |  |  | here |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a sad, muddy wreck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t11:o1:1
# text = a sad, muddy wreck
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wreck	wreck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a complete mess of dirt and sticks scattered all over the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t11:o2:1
# text = a complete mess of dirt and sticks scattered all over the floor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | participle |  | sticks *not said here* |  | the floor |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over floor=Destination |
| 2 | **mess** |  |  | dirt |  |  |  |  | nom mess «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a messy, sorry state

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t11:o3:1
# text = a messy, sorry state
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like a sour pickled cucumber that has gone bad in a jar for months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1088-pg29021-part13:t11:o4:1
# text = like a sour pickled cucumber that has gone bad in a jar for months
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sour	sour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	pickled	pickle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pickle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present · perfect | pickled cucumber |  |  | a jar | month | bad *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in jar=Location |

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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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