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title: Gutted for her, yeah? So what was the couch covered in? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gutted for her, yeah? So what was the couch covered in? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…

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Gutted for her, yeah? So what was the couch covered in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** gut, be, cover · **To what, where:** couch

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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/1425-pg503-part12/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gutted for her, yeah?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t4:1
# text = Gutted for her, yeah?
1	Gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for her *= she* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* So what was the couch covered in?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t4:2
# text = So what was the couch covered in?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the couch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | the couch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t4:o1:1
# text = Silk
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Heavy cloth of pure gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t4:o2:1
# text = Heavy cloth of pure gold
1	Heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gold	gold	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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Silver cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t4:o3:1
# text = Silver cloth
1	Silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Cloth of gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t4:o4:1
# text = Cloth of gold
1	Cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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