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title: Mint, how did the fool get properly dusty? — English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mint, how did the fool get properly dusty? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 247 «English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a coat o' clay, gets muddy and drunk, and learns he is still a fool» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a…

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Mint, how did the fool get properly dusty?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mint, fool · **What happens:** do, get

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 247 «English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a coat o' clay, gets muddy and drunk, and learns he is still a fool» 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/247-pg14241-part14/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:247-pg14241-part14:t10:1
# text = Mint, how did the fool get properly dusty?
1	Mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mint |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | the fool |  |  |  |  | dusty *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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rolling by the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:247-pg14241-part14:t10:o1:1
# text = rolling by the gate
1	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by the gate | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by gate=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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lying in the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:247-pg14241-part14:t10:o2:1
# text = lying in the road
1	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the road |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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in mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:247-pg14241-part14:t10:o3:1
# text = in mud
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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in the drain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:247-pg14241-part14:t10:o4:1
# text = in the drain
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	drain	drain	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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