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title: Ayo, what did the tailor nick out of his gaff before he dipped? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayo, what did the tailor nick out of his gaff before he dipped? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 109 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: the Tailor outwits a Giant and wins a King's dangerous task» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

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Ayo, what did the tailor nick out of his gaff before he dipped?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ayo · **What happens:** do, dip · **To what, where:** tailor nick, gaff

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 109 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: the Tailor outwits a Giant and wins a King's dangerous task» 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/109-pg11027-part12/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t1:1
# text = Ayo, what did the tailor nick out of his gaff before he dipped?
1	Ayo	Ayo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	nick	nick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	gaff	gaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dipped	dip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ayo | the tailor nick |  | Ayo's gaff |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dip** | past | Ayo |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 sponge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t1:o1:1
# text = a sponge
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sponge	sponge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a cheese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t1:o2:1
# text = a cheese
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a wedge of crumbly cheese from the shelf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t1:o3:1
# text = a wedge of crumbly cheese from the shelf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wedge	wedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	crumbly	crumbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a fresh cheese from the larder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t1:o4:1
# text = a fresh cheese from the larder
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	larder	larder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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