--- title: how did the rogues pretend to finish the suit at night? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's… · tree and pragmatics description: how did the rogues pretend to finish the suit at night? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 274 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/274-pg1597-part1/t11/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/274-pg1597-part1/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:… how did the rogues pretend to finish the suit at night? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rogues · **What happens:** do, pretend, finish · **To what, where:** suit This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 274 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers» 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/274-pg1597-part1/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t11:1 # text = how did the rogues pretend to finish the suit at night? 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rogues rogue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pretend pretend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 suit suit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pretend** | present | the rogues | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **finish** | to-infinitive | the rogues *not said here* | the suit | | | night | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suit=Eventuality | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} cut air, sew with no thread ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t11:o1:1 # text = cut air, sew with no thread 1 cut cut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 sew sew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | air | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product | | 2 | **sew** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | with no thread | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with thread=Co-Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} cut air and sewed with no thread, working secretly through every night until dawn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t11:o2:1 # text = cut air and sewed with no thread, working secretly through every night until dawn 1 cut cut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 sewed sew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 10 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 until until ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | air | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product | | 2 | **sew** | past | you *not said here* | | | | | with no thread | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with thread=Co-Patient | | 3 | **work** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | dawn; night | secretly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} stitched in the dark hall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t11:o3:1 # text = stitched in the dark hall 1 stitched stitch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stitch** | participle | | | | the dark hall | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} measured the bolts of silk ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t11:o4:1 # text = measured the bolts of silk 1 measured measure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bolts bolt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **measure** | past | | the bolts of silk | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme bolt=Value | | 2 | **bolt** | | silk | | | | | | nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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