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title: what were the gobby old women munching, like? — Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40… · tree and pragmatics
description: what were the gobby old women munching, like? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 4 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

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what were the gobby old women munching, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old women · **What happens:** be, munch · **To what, where:** old women

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» 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/1072-pg2892-part40/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t4:1
# text = what were the gobby old women munching, like?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	gobby	gobby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	munching	munch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the old women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **munch** | gerund | the old women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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bread and cold beef

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t4:o1:1
# text = bread and cold beef
1	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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apples and meat-pies with honey and cream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t4:o2:1
# text = apples and meat-pies with honey and cream
1	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cream	cream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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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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apples and meat-pies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t4:o3:1
# text = apples and meat-pies
1	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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apples

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1072-pg2892-part40:t4:o4:1
# text = apples
1	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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