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title: did the tailor eat his bread straight away? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, Jo… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the tailor eat his bread straight away? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…

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did the tailor eat his bread straight away?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tailor · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** bread

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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/1483-pg503-part70/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t11:1
# text = did the tailor eat his bread straight away?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · do-support | the tailor | tailor's bread |  |  |  | away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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No, he waited for dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t11:o1:1
# text = No, he waited for dinner
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | he |  |  |  |  | for dinner | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, he ate it at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, he ate it at once
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, he sewed first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t11:o3:1
# text = No, he sewed first
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | he |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t11:o4:1
# text = Yes
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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