--- title: Wait, who came running to buy those skins? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus a… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, who came running to buy those skins? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/869-pg27200-part80/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/869-pg27200-part80/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8… Wait, who came running to buy those skins? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, come, run, buy · **To what, where:** skins This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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/869-pg27200-part80/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t12:1 # text = Wait, who came running to buy those skins? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | | that skins | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | 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 {#o1} The shoemakers and tanners of the whole town and beyond ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t12:o1:1 # text = The shoemakers and tanners of the whole town and beyond 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shoemakers shoemaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 tanners tanner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 beyond beyond ADV RB _ 8 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The butchers and bakers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t12:o2:1 # text = The butchers and bakers 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 butchers butcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 bakers baker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The shoemakers and tanners ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t12:o3:1 # text = The shoemakers and tanners 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shoemakers shoemaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 tanners tanner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} The farmers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:869-pg27200-part80:t12:o4:1 # text = The farmers 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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