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title: Did you clock the tailors coming out of his hairs? — Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did you clock the tailors coming out of his hairs? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1331 «Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56: Bellah dresses as a young man, rides a magic horse, and turns the fairy into a toad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56…

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Did you clock the tailors coming out of his hairs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tailors · **What happens:** do, come out · **To what, where:** you, hairs

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1331 «Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56: Bellah dresses as a young man, rides a magic horse, and turns the fairy into a toad» 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/1331-pg3454-part56/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1331-pg3454-part56:t3:1
# text = Did you clock the tailors coming out of his hairs?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tailors	tailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come out** | gerund | the tailors *not said here* | his hairs |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hair=Result |

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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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Yeah, three of them, lounging by the pond and knitting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1331-pg3454-part56:t3:o1:1
# text = Yeah, three of them, lounging by the pond and knitting
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lounging	lounge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	knitting	knitting	NOUN	NN	_	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lounge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by the pond and knitting | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pond=Location |

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

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Proper mad, four of them, sitting in the nest and sewing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1331-pg3454-part56:t3:o2:1
# text = Proper mad, four of them, sitting in the nest and sewing
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sewing	sewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | the nest and sewing |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, two of them, standing in the pond and cooking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1331-pg3454-part56:t3:o3:1
# text = Nah, two of them, standing in the pond and cooking
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | two of them |  |  | the pond and cooking |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pond=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Proper mad, four of them came out of his hair, sitting in the nest and sewing away like mad

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1331-pg3454-part56:t3:o4:1
# text = Proper mad, four of them came out of his hair, sitting in the nest and sewing away like mad
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | mad | his hair |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hair=Result |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | mad *not said here* |  |  | the nest |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location |
| 3 | **sew away** | gerund | mad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like mad; away *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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