--- title: Lol, who did the collar chat up in the wash tub? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Coll… · tree and pragmatics description: Lol, who did the collar chat up in the wash tub? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/976-pg27200-part187/t4/) [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, The Shirt Coll…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/976-pg27200-part187/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla… Lol, who did the collar chat up in the wash tub? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** collar · **What happens:** do, chat up · **To what, where:** wash tub This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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/976-pg27200-part187/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t4:1 # text = Lol, who did the collar chat up in the wash tub? 1 Lol lol INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 collar collar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 chat chat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 wash wash NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 tub tub NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **chat up** *speech: other* | present | the collar | | | the wash tub | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} A slim garter ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t4:o1:1 # text = A slim garter 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 slim slim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 garter garter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A sock ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t4:o2:1 # text = A sock 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sock sock NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A tall hatband ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t4:o3:1 # text = A tall hatband 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hatband hatband NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} A slim garter who was too shy to speak ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t4:o4:1 # text = A slim garter who was too shy to speak 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 slim slim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 garter garter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | a slim garter | | | | | shy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | a slim garter *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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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