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title: Lol, what tune was the tailor singing while lugging the massive tree? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what tune was the tailor singing while lugging the massive tree? Test 5 · ★ 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 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

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Lol, what tune was the tailor singing while lugging the massive tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tailor · **What happens:** be, sing, lug · **To what, where:** tailor, massive tree

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t5:1
# text = Lol, what tune was the tailor singing while lugging the massive tree?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	lugging	lug	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the tailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lug** | gerund | the tailor *not said here* | the massive tree |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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 song about three tailors who rode out at the gate of the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t5:o1:1
# text = a song about three tailors who rode out at the gate of the town
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tailors	tailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride out** | past | a song |  |  | the gate of the town |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a hymn about the King's palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t5:o2:1
# text = a hymn about the King's palace
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a song about three tailors and their gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t5:o3:1
# text = a song about three tailors and their gate
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tailors	tailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
"There rode three tailors out at the gate"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:t5:o4:1
# text = "There rode three tailors out at the gate"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tailors	tailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride out** *in a quote* | past |  | three tailors |  | the gate; there |  | out *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Theme |

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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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