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title: What was the shoemaker's sneaky plan in the sack switch? — Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beaut… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the shoemaker's sneaky plan in the sack switch? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 6 · ★ · Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: t…

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What was the shoemaker's sneaky plan in the sack switch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sneaky plan, shoemaker · **What happens:** be, plan · **To what, where:** sack switch

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1640 «Grimm, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, part 1: the servant finds soft hands, and the old bride is flung out» 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/1640-pg5615-part29/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t6:1
# text = What was the shoemaker's sneaky plan in the sack switch?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	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 | the shoemaker's sneaky plan in the sack switch |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **plan** |  | the shoemaker |  |  | the sack switch |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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Bribe the guards with gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t6:o1:1
# text = Bribe the guards with gold
1	Bribe	bribe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bribe** | imperative | you *not said here* | the guards |  |  |  | with gold | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Trick the robbers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t6:o2:1
# text = Trick the robbers
1	Trick	trick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | imperative | you *not said here* | the robbers |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pretend to be the captain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t6:o3:1
# text = Pretend to be the captain
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the captain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Swap places with the swineherd

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1640-pg5615-part29:t6:o4:1
# text = Swap places with the swineherd
1	Swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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