--- title: and what did they say the clothes felt like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's… · tree and pragmatics description: and what did they say the clothes felt like? Test 12 · ★ 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 each optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/274-pg1597-part1/t12/) [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/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:… and what did they say the clothes felt like? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they, clothes · **What happens:** say, feel · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t12:1 # text = and what did they say the clothes felt like? 1 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 8 nsubj _ _ 8 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | they | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | past | the clothes | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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} soft as wool ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t12:o1:1 # text = soft as wool 1 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} thin as a sheet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t12:o2:1 # text = thin as a sheet 1 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} as light as a cobweb drifting in the palace garden breeze ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t12:o3:1 # text = as light as a cobweb drifting in the palace garden breeze 1 as as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cobweb cobweb NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 drifting drift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drift** | gerund | a cobweb *not said here* | | | the garden breeze | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breeze=Trajectory | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} light as a cobweb ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t12:o4:1 # text = light as a cobweb 1 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cobweb cobweb NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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