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title: Who's the grumpy one who reckons the saucepan talks too much? — Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the grumpy one who reckons the saucepan talks too much? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends…

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Who's the grumpy one who reckons the saucepan talks too much?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grumpy one · **What happens:** be, reckon, talk · **To what, where:** grumpy one, saucepan, much

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 829 «Andersen's Tales, The Flying Trunk: the kitchen talk ends and the trunk burns» 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/829-pg27200-part40/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t11:1
# text = Who's the grumpy one who reckons the saucepan talks too much?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the grumpy one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reckon** | present | the grumpy one | the saucepan |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent saucepan=Attribute |
| 3 | **talk** | present | the grumpy one | much |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent much=Patient |

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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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the urn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t11:o1:1
# text = the urn
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	urn	urn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the saucepan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t11:o2:1
# text = the saucepan
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the broom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t11:o3:1
# text = the broom
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the tinder-box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:829-pg27200-part40:t11:o4:1
# text = the tinder-box
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tinder	tinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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