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title: What's the clay-in-the-face bit about? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dulla… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the clay-in-the-face bit about? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden shoe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Pr…

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What's the clay-in-the-face bit about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** clay · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden shoe» 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/820-pg27200-part31/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:t8:1
# text = What's the clay-in-the-face bit about?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the clay |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Jack flung a lump of muck at him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:t8:o1:1
# text = Jack flung a lump of muck at him
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	muck	muck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past | Jack | a lump of muck |  |  |  | at him *= he* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lump=Theme at he=Destination |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Jack chucked wet clay at the head clerk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:t8:o2:1
# text = Jack chucked wet clay at the head clerk
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | past | Jack | wet clay |  | the head clerk |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent clay=Theme at clerk=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Jack threw mud at the boss man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:t8:o3:1
# text = Jack threw mud at the boss man
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | Jack | mud |  |  |  | at the boss man | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mud=Theme at man=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Jack chucked wet clay at the head clerk, and then he legged it out of the hall

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:t8:o4:1
# text = Jack chucked wet clay at the head clerk, and then he legged it out of the hall
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	legged	leg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck** | past | Jack | wet clay |  | the head clerk |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent clay=Theme at clerk=Destination |
| 2 | **leg** | past | Jack | clay |  | the hall | then |  | 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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