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title: Which name did the imp sing at his spinning-wheel, as recorded in th… — English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which name did the imp sing at his spinning-wheel, as recorded in the text? Exam question 1 of lesson 1944 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl guesses the imp's name, and the sillies begin their troubles» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
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# Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl g…

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Which name did the imp sing at his spinning-wheel, as recorded in the text?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** name · **What happens:** do, record · **To what, where:** imp sing, spinning wheel, text

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1944 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl guesses the imp's name, and the sillies begin their troubles» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1944-pg7439-part3/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1944-pg7439-part3:e1:1
# text = Which name did the imp sing at his spinning-wheel, as recorded in the text?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	imp	imp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which name | the imp sing |  | name's spinning wheel |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **record** | participle | which name *not said here* |  |  | the text |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=Destination |

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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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Tom Tit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1944-pg7439-part3:e1:o1:1
# text = Tom Tit
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tit	Tit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tim Tot Tit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1944-pg7439-part3:e1:o2:1
# text = Tim Tot Tit
1	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tot	Tot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Tit	Tit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Tom Tit Tot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1944-pg7439-part3:e1:o3:1
# text = Tom Tit Tot
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Tit	Tit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Tot	Tot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1944-pg7439-part3:e1:o4:1
# text = Tot
1	Tot	tot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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