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title: Bro, why did the lions just sit there growling? — Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, why did the lions just sit there growling? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1066 «Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses monsters and dangers, then fights Dog Head and Morgan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 3 · ★ · Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses…

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Bro, why did the lions just sit there growling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lions · **What happens:** do, sit, growl

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1066 «Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses monsters and dangers, then fights Dog Head and Morgan» 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/1066-pg2892-part34/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1066-pg2892-part34:t3:1
# text = Bro, why did the lions just sit there growling?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	growling	growl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | the lions |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **growl** | gerund | the lions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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They were tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1066-pg2892-part34:t3:o1:1
# text = They were tired
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tired	tired	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** | past | They |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They were asleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1066-pg2892-part34:t3:o2:1
# text = They were asleep
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	asleep	asleep	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** | past | They |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |

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

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They were waiting to eat the beasts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1066-pg2892-part34:t3:o3:1
# text = They were waiting to eat the beasts
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · progressive | They |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | the beasts |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They were bored of the cold stone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1066-pg2892-part34:t3:o4:1
# text = They were bored of the cold stone
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	bored	bore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bore** | past · passive |  | They |  |  |  | of the cold stone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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