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title: real talk, what was the cook doing to the slipper? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Ne… · tree and pragmatics
description: real talk, what was the cook doing to the slipper? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

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real talk, what was the cook doing to the slipper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** real talk, cook · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** cook

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» 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/812-pg27200-part23/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t10:1
# text = real talk, what was the cook doing to the slipper?
1	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | real talk | the cook |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the cook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the slipper | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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mending a crack in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t10:o1:1
# text = mending a crack in it
1	mending	mend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mend** | gerund |  | a crack |  | crack |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
mending a big crack in the leather sole with wax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t10:o2:1
# text = mending a big crack in the leather sole with wax
1	mending	mend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sole	sole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mend** | gerund |  | a big crack |  | the leather sole |  | with wax | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sealing a long split in the back of the slipper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t10:o3:1
# text = sealing a long split in the back of the slipper
1	sealing	seal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	split	split	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seal** | gerund |  | a long split |  | the back of the slipper |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent split=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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stitching the heel up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:812-pg27200-part23:t10:o4:1
# text = stitching the heel up
1	stitching	stitch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stitch up** | gerund |  | the heel |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Product |

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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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