--- title: Was the king buzzing or gutted about the tailor? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the king buzzing or gutted about the tailor? Test 11 · ★ 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 question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/741-pg2591-part17/t11/) [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/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/741-pg2591-part17/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the… Was the king buzzing or gutted about the tailor? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, gut · **To what, where:** king buzzing This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t11:1 # text = Was the king buzzing or gutted about the tailor? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 buzzing buzzing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 6 gutted gut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the king buzzing | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **gut** | participle | | the king buzzing *not said here* | | | | about the tailor | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 {#o1} Chuffed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t11:o1:1 # text = Chuffed 1 Chuffed chuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuff** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Chuffed he had met him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t11:o2:1 # text = Chuffed he had met him 1 Chuffed chuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuff** | participle | he *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **meet** | past · perfect | he | him *= he* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Glad, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t11:o3:1 # text = Glad, mate 1 Glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Gutted he had met him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:741-pg2591-part17:t11:o4:1 # text = Gutted he had met him 1 Gutted gut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gut** | participle | he *not said here* | | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **meet** | past · perfect | he | him *= he* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | **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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