--- title: Mad, what did the thread look like? — Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet… · tree and pragmatics description: Mad, what did the thread look like? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1543-pg540-part40/t8/) [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/) / [Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1543-pg540-part40/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa… Mad, what did the thread look like? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** thread · **What happens:** look This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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/1543-pg540-part40/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t8:1 # text = Mad, what did the thread look like? 1 Mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 obl _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the thread | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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} Knotted and very thin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t8:o1:1 # text = Knotted and very thin 1 Knotted knot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knot** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Very messy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t8:o2:1 # text = Very messy 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 messy messy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Super tangled and fragile ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t8:o3:1 # text = Super tangled and fragile 1 Super super ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 fragile fragile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tangle** | participle | | | | | | super *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Wound up and easily broken ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1543-pg540-part40:t8:o4:1 # text = Wound up and easily broken 1 Wound wound VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 easily easily ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wound up** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **break** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | easily *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | **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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