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title: lol, what were the elves even doing out there? — Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Compa… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol, what were the elves even doing out there? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

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lol, what were the elves even doing out there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** elves · **What happens:** be, do out · **To what, where:** elves

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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/1007-pg27200-part218/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t2:1
# text = lol, what were the elves even doing out there?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the elves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do out** | gerund | the elves |  |  | there |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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hunting for mushrooms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t2:o1:1
# text = hunting for mushrooms
1	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for mushrooms | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for mushroom=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dancing in the moonlight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t2:o2:1
# text = dancing in the moonlight
1	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moonlight	moonlight	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 |  |  |  | the moonlight |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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partying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t2:o3:1
# text = partying
1	partying	party	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **party** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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singing under the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:t2:o4:1
# text = singing under the trees
1	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |

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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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