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title: and the weavers were working at the looms, right? what were they act… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the weavers were working at the looms, right? what were they actually doing? Test 5 · ★ 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 pragmatic
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…

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and the weavers were working at the looms, right? what were they actually doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** weavers · **What happens:** work, do

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t5:1
# text = and the weavers were working at the looms, right? what were they actually doing?
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	weavers	weaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	looms	loom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past · progressive | the weavers |  |  |  |  | at the looms | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at loom=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · progressive | weavers *= weaver* |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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working hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t5:o1:1
# text = working hard
1	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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weaving cloth in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t5:o2:1
# text = weaving cloth in the dark
1	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | gerund |  | cloth |  | the dark |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Product |

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

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nothing at all, just faking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t5:o3:1
# text = nothing at all, just faking
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	faking	fake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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just weaving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:274-pg1597-part1:t5:o4:1
# text = just weaving
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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