--- title: Was the coat thick and cosy, yeah? — Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foo… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the coat thick and cosy, yeah? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1247-pg3282-part48/t14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1247-pg3282-part48/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t… Was the coat thick and cosy, yeah? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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/1247-pg3282-part48/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t14:1 # text = Was the coat thick and cosy, yeah? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 cosy cosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | the coat *obl:unmarked*; thick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | 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} Yeah, it was thick ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t14:o1:1 # text = Yeah, it was thick 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | thick *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Nah, it was thin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t14:o2:1 # text = Nah, it was thin 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, warm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t14:o3:1 # text = Yeah, warm 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, big ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1247-pg3282-part48:t14:o4:1 # text = Nah, big 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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