--- title: What were the walls covered with, like posters? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman… · tree and pragmatics description: What were the walls covered with, like posters? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1937 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 1: a greedy wife keeps asking the flounder for more» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1937-pg7277-part74/t10/) [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/) / [Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1937-pg7277-part74/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part… What were the walls covered with, like posters? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, cover · **To what, where:** walls This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1937 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 1: a greedy wife keeps asking the flounder for more» 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/1937-pg7277-part74/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1937-pg7277-part74:t10:1 # text = What were the walls covered with, like posters? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 posters poster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the walls and posters | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | the walls and posters *not said here* | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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} great red banners ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1937-pg7277-part74:t10:o1:1 # text = great red banners 1 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 banners banner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} fine silk hangings ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1937-pg7277-part74:t10:o2:1 # text = fine silk hangings 1 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 hangings hanging NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} beautiful tapestry hung up on golden hooks ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1937-pg7277-part74:t10:o3:1 # text = beautiful tapestry hung up on golden hooks 1 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tapestry tapestry NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang up** | participle | | beautiful tapestry *not said here* | | golden hooks | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hook=Location | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} beautiful tapestry hung up ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1937-pg7277-part74:t10:o4:1 # text = beautiful tapestry hung up 1 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 tapestry tapestry NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang up** | participle | | beautiful tapestry *not said here* | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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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