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title: what thread did the tailor use, the most basic one? — Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: what thread did the tailor use, the most basic one? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 730 «Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways a…

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what thread did the tailor use, the most basic one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** thread · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** tailor use

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 730 «Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam» 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/730-pg2591-part6/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t7:1
# text = what thread did the tailor use, the most basic one?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	basic	basic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | thread | the tailor use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Gold yarn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t7:o1:1
# text = Gold yarn
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Black thread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t7:o2:1
# text = Black thread
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Black thread from a spool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t7:o3:1
# text = Black thread from a spool
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spool	spool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:730-pg2591-part6:t7:o4:1
# text = Blue
1	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	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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