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title: Bruv, what did the tailor sew the eggs with, be honest? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the tailor sew the eggs with, be honest? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

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Bruv, what did the tailor sew the eggs with, be honest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tailor, you · **What happens:** sew, be · **To what, where:** eggs

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» 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/768-pg2591-part44/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t4:1
# text = Bruv, what did the tailor sew the eggs with, be honest?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sew	sew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past · do-support | the tailor | the eggs |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary egg=Product |
| 2 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A needle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t4:o1:1
# text = A needle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A thimble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t4:o2:1
# text = A thimble
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thimble	thimble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A massive curved needle from his gran's kit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t4:o3:1
# text = A massive curved needle from his gran's kit
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	kit	kit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Some thread and a big sewing needle, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:768-pg2591-part44:t4:o4:1
# text = Some thread and a big sewing needle, mate
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sewing	sewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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