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title: Yo, what's the boy's quilt look like? — Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what's the boy's quilt look like? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress co…

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Yo, what's the boy's quilt look like?

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

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 844 «Andersen's Tales, The Laundress, part 55: the laundress collapses in the street and tells her sad story» 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/844-pg27200-part55/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t11:1
# text = Yo, what's the boy's quilt look like?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	quilt	quilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | the boy's quilt |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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grey with brown patches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t11:o1:1
# text = grey with brown patches
1	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

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

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blue and white patchwork

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t11:o2:1
# text = blue and white patchwork
1	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	patchwork	patchwork	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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red and yellow stripes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t11:o3:1
# text = red and yellow stripes
1	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a faded blue and white patchwork quilt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:844-pg27200-part55:t11:o4:1
# text = a faded blue and white patchwork quilt
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	patchwork	patchwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	quilt	quilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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