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title: «gull's doing a funny tap dance on the footy pitch» What is it most… — Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and s… · tree and pragmatics
description: «gull's doing a funny tap dance on the footy pitch» What is it most likely doing? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 223 «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water

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«gull's doing a funny tap dance on the footy pitch» What is it most likely doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** gull · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** funny tap dance, footy pitch

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 223 «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» of the biology 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/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water:t3:1
# text = «gull's doing a funny tap dance on the footy pitch» What is it most likely doing?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	gull	gull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	footy	footy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | gull | a funny tap dance |  | the footy pitch |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | gull |  |  |  |  | do, likely *property* | tree rules |

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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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Trying to break the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water:t3:o1:1
# text = Trying to break the grass
1	Trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **break** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the grass |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dancing to music from a car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water:t3:o2:1
# text = Dancing to music from a car
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  | a car |  | to music | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to music=Trajectory |

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

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Stamping to bring worms up, like rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water:t3:o3:1
# text = Stamping to bring worms up, like rain
1	Stamping	stamp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring up** | to-infinitive |  | worms |  |  |  | like rain | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent worm=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Waiting for the ball to land so it can peck it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water:t3:o4:1
# text = Waiting for the ball to land so it can peck it
1	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	peck	peck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the ball | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **land** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | so ball | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **peck** | can | Waiting | ball |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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