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title: Boss, what's the seamstress doing with her hands? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Boss, what's the seamstress doing with her hands? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 6 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

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Boss, what's the seamstress doing with her hands?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Boss, seamstress · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** seamstress

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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/2031-pg902-part1/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t6:1
# text = Boss, what's the seamstress doing with her hands?
1	Boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seamstress	seamstress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Boss | the seamstress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the seamstress *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with her hands | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Stitching a shirt with daisies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t6:o1:1
# text = Stitching a shirt with daisies
1	Stitching	stitch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	daisies	daisy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stitch** | gerund |  | a shirt |  |  |  | with daisies | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient with daisy=Instrument |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Embroidering a cloak with roses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t6:o2:1
# text = Embroidering a cloak with roses
1	Embroidering	embroider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embroider** | gerund |  | a cloak |  |  |  | with roses | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Destination with rose=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Sewing a gown with passion-flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t6:o3:1
# text = Sewing a gown with passion-flowers
1	Sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | gerund |  | a gown |  |  |  | with passion flowers | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent gown=Patient with flower=Co-Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sewing a long satin gown covered with passion-flowers for the duchess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2031-pg902-part1:t6:o4:1
# text = Sewing a long satin gown covered with passion-flowers for the duchess
1	Sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	duchess	duchess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | gerund |  | a long satin gown |  |  |  | for the duchess | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent gown=Material for duchess=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a long satin gown *not said here* |  |  |  | with passion flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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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