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title: so Big Klaus smeared tar on the measure just to catch Klaus slipping… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus a… · tree and pragmatics
description: so Big Klaus smeared tar on the measure just to catch Klaus slipping, no cap? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1729 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little Klaus sells the sexton and then his dead grandmother for money» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little…

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so Big Klaus smeared tar on the measure just to catch Klaus slipping, no cap?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Big, Klaus · **What happens:** smear, catch, slip · **To what, where:** tar, measure, Klaus

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1729 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Klaus and Big Klaus: Little Klaus sells the sexton and then his dead grandmother for money» 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/1729-pg640-part53/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:t2:1
# text = so Big Klaus smeared tar on the measure just to catch Klaus slipping, no cap?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	smeared	smear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	slipping	slip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smear** | past | Big | tar |  | the measure |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tar=Theme on measure=Destination |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Big *not said here* | Klaus |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent klaus=Theme |
| 3 | **slip** | gerund | Klaus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 -->
no cap, that was his whole plan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:t2:o1:1
# text = no cap, that was his whole plan
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that | his whole plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no cap, he just wanted skins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:t2:o2:1
# text = no cap, he just wanted skins
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | no cap | skins |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no cap, the whole tar thing was his plan all along

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:t2:o3:1
# text = no cap, the whole tar thing was his plan all along
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	along	along	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | no cap | his plan |  |  |  | along *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no cap, that was his whole plan, lowkey evil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1729-pg640-part53:t2:o4:1
# text = no cap, that was his whole plan, lowkey evil
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that | his whole plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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