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title: so the frog's sewing was dead wrong, what was up with the coat? — Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine,… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the frog's sewing was dead wrong, what was up with the coat? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1226 «Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolverine tricks a bear up a tree after a rock, lightning and a torn coat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 11 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…

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so the frog's sewing was dead wrong, what was up with the coat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sewing, frog · **What happens:** be, sew

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1226 «Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolverine tricks a bear up a tree after a rock, lightning and a torn coat» 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/1226-pg3282-part27/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1226-pg3282-part27:t11:1
# text = so the frog's sewing was dead wrong, what was up with the coat?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sewing	sewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the frog's sewing |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with the coat | tree rules |
| 3 | **sew** |  | the frog |  |  |  |  |  | nom sewing «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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it was too short

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1226-pg3282-part27:t11:o1:1
# text = it was too short
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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it was too loose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1226-pg3282-part27:t11:o2:1
# text = it was too loose
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | loose *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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it bulged and was too tight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1226-pg3282-part27:t11:o3:1
# text = it bulged and was too tight
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bulged	bulge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bulge** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | tight *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it had holes and was far too small for him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1226-pg3282-part27:t11:o4:1
# text = it had holes and was far too small for him
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | it | holes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for him *= he*; far, small *property* | tree rules |

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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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