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title: Was his outfit ruined after all that? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was his outfit ruined after all that? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a w…

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Was his outfit ruined after all that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, ruin · **To what, where:** outfit

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 749 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb: swallowed by a cow and a wolf, Tom talks his way out and goes home» 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/749-pg2591-part25/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t9:1
# text = Was his outfit ruined after all that?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	outfit	outfit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | his outfit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ruin** | participle |  | his outfit *not said here* |  |  | after his outfit |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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Yeah, clothes kinda torn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t9:o1:1
# text = Yeah, clothes kinda torn
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | participle |  | clothes *not said here* |  |  |  | kinda *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, clothes all dirty now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t9:o2:1
# text = Yeah, clothes all dirty now
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dirty	dirty	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dirty** | present | clothes |  |  |  | now | all *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, kinda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t9:o3:1
# text = Yeah, kinda
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, clothes totally trashed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:749-pg2591-part25:t9:o4:1
# text = Yeah, clothes totally trashed
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
4	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	trashed	trash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trash** | participle |  | clothes *not said here* |  |  |  | totally *property* | tree rules |

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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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