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title: What was the doll's play sort of copying, innit? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdes… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the doll's play sort of copying, innit? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

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What was the doll's play sort of copying, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** play sort, doll · **What happens:** be, innit, sort · **To what, where:** copying

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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/974-pg27200-part185/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t5:1
# text = What was the doll's play sort of copying, innit?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	copying	copying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the doll's play sort of copying |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the doll's play sort of copying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sort** |  | the doll | copying |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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 {#o1}

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a tale of a sweep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t5:o1:1
# text = a tale of a sweep
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** |  | a sweep |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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two lovers at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t5:o2:1
# text = two lovers at sea
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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two lovers who weren't allowed to wed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t5:o3:1
# text = two lovers who weren't allowed to wed
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | past · passive |  | two lovers |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wed** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | two lovers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a story about a sweep and a teapot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:974-pg27200-part185:t5:o4:1
# text = a story about a sweep and a teapot
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	teapot	teapot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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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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