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title: Why didn't the huntsmen slip on the peas? — Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why didn't the huntsmen slip on the peas? Test 3 · ★ 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 cho
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# Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

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Why didn't the huntsmen slip on the peas?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** huntsmen · **What happens:** do, not slip · **To what, where:** peas

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t3:1
# text = Why didn't the huntsmen slip on the peas?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slip	slip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **slip** | present | the huntsmen |  |  | the peas |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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they tread very firm and wore spiked iron boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t3:o1:1
# text = they tread very firm and wore spiked iron boots
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tread	tread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	spiked	spike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread** | present | they |  |  |  |  | firm *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | past | they *not said here* | spiked iron boots |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boot=Theme |
| 3 | **spike** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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their feet were wrapped in thick woollen cloths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t3:o2:1
# text = their feet were wrapped in thick woollen cloths
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	woollen	woollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cloths	cloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | past · passive |  | their feet |  | thick woollen cloths |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cloth=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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they walked quite slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t3:o3:1
# text = they walked quite slowly
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | they |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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they tread dead firm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1925-pg7277-part62:t3:o4:1
# text = they tread dead firm
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tread	tread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	firm	firm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread** | present | they | dead firm |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location firm=Theme |

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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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