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title: what did the rag say about gilding, like the shiny bit? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the rag say about gilding, like the shiny bit? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

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what did the rag say about gilding, like the shiny bit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rag · **What happens:** do, say, gild · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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/922-pg27200-part133/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t11:1
# text = what did the rag say about gilding, like the shiny bit?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	gilding	gild	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the rag |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gild** | gerund | the rag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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 {#o1}

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it fades quickly in the damp, leaving the soldier ugly and bare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t11:o1:1
# text = it fades quickly in the damp, leaving the soldier ugly and bare
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fade** | present | it |  |  | the damp |  | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund |  | the soldier |  |  |  | ugly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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it lasts for many years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t11:o2:1
# text = it lasts for many years
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | it |  |  |  | year |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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it fades in damp weather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t11:o3:1
# text = it fades in damp weather
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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it is shiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:922-pg27200-part133:t11:o4:1
# text = it is shiny
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | shiny *property* | 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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