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title: bro, what was the tailor lying on at the palace? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Littl… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, what was the tailor lying on at the palace? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1484 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: the tailor tricks two giants and is offered a post by the King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: t…

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bro, what was the tailor lying on at the palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bro, tailor · **What happens:** be, lie on · **To what, where:** tailor, palace

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1484 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 71: the tailor tricks two giants and is offered a post by the King» 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/1484-pg503-part71/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:t7:1
# text = bro, what was the tailor lying on at the palace?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bro | the tailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie on** | gerund | the tailor *not said here* |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at palace=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:t7:o1:1
# text = the grass
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the dirt road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:t7:o2:1
# text = the dirt road
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a pile of hay beside the stable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:t7:o3:1
# text = a pile of hay beside the stable
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the cobbles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1484-pg503-part71:t7:o4:1
# text = the cobbles
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cobbles	cobble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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