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title: Oi mate, what's the tailor's massive boast on his belt? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi mate, what's the tailor's massive boast on his belt? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 741 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the tailor tricks the giants and wins a place at the king's court» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

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Oi mate, what's the tailor's massive boast on his belt?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oi mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** massive boast, belt

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 741 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the tailor tricks the giants and wins a place at the king's court» 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/741-pg2591-part17/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t1:1
# text = Oi mate, what's the tailor's massive boast on his belt?
1	Oi	Oi	X	FW	_	2	compound	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Oi mate and the tailor's massive boast | the tailor's massive boast |  | tailor's belt |  |  | 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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Seven flies swatted with one whack of my mighty fists

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t1:o1:1
# text = Seven flies swatted with one whack of my mighty fists
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	swatted	swat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	whack	whack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swat** | participle |  | Seven flies *not said here* |  |  |  | with one whack of my mighty fists | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with whack=Instrument |
| 2 | **whack** |  |  | my mighty fists |  |  |  |  | nom whack «event transitive»: of=patient |

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

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Seven at one stroke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t1:o2:1
# text = Seven at one stroke
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dead giants and seven at one stroke, mate, proper legend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t1:o3:1
# text = Dead giants and seven at one stroke, mate, proper legend
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seven whacks in one go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t1:o4:1
# text = Seven whacks in one go
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	whacks	whack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whack** | present | Seven |  |  | one go |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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