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title: What's the grinder's job, like, actually? — Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the grinder's job, like, actually? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 727 «Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades his goose for a grindstone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades…

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What's the grinder's job, like, actually?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** job, grinder · **What happens:** be, job

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 727 «Grimm's Household Tales, Hans in Luck, part 3: Hans trades his goose for a grindstone» 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/727-pg2591-part3/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t10:1
# text = What's the grinder's job, like, actually?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grinder	grinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	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 | the grinder's job |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **job** |  | the grinder |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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grinding knives and scissors all over town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t10:o1:1
# text = grinding knives and scissors all over town
1	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grind** | gerund |  | knives and scissors |  |  |  | town *obl* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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selling pots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t10:o2:1
# text = selling pots
1	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | pots |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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mending pots and sharpening old tools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t10:o3:1
# text = mending pots and sharpening old tools
1	mending	mend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mend** | gerund |  | pots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sharpen** | gerund |  | old tools |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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grinding knives

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:727-pg2591-part3:t10:o4:1
# text = grinding knives
1	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grind** | gerund |  | knives |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |

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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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