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title: Mate, how did the trumpeter look after getting smashed? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicia… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how did the trumpeter look after getting smashed? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

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Mate, how did the trumpeter look after getting smashed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** trumpeter · **What happens:** look, smash

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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/1939-pg7277-part76/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t4:1
# text = Mate, how did the trumpeter look after getting smashed?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trumpeter	trumpeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	getting	get	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	smashed	smash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the trumpeter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smash** | gerund · passive | the trumpeter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Like a squashed rabbit in bed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t4:o1:1
# text = Like a squashed rabbit in bed
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Crying like a baby child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t4:o2:1
# text = Crying like a baby child
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like a baby child | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pale and sick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t4:o3:1
# text = Pale and sick
1	Pale	pale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shaking like a wet dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1939-pg7277-part76:t4:o4:1
# text = Shaking like a wet dog
1	Shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like a wet dog | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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