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title: Where did the spindle go, mate? — Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the spindle go, mate? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was w
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

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Where did the spindle go, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** spindle · **What happens:** go

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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/1925-pg7277-part62/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t12:1
# text = Where did the spindle go, mate?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | the spindle |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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dancing through the fields and over the hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t12:o1:1
# text = dancing through the fields and over the hill
1	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  | the fields |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dancing through the fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t12:o2:1
# text = dancing through the fields
1	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  | the fields |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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dancing through the golden fields of the valley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t12:o3:1
# text = dancing through the golden fields of the valley
1	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  | the golden fields of the valley |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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skipping across the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t12:o4:1
# text = skipping across the river
1	skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | gerund |  |  |  | the river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory |

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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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