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title: lol what was the wind doing on the floor? — Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol what was the wind doing on the floor? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 3 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the p…

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lol what was the wind doing on the floor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** wind, floor

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» 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/1098-pg29672-part4/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t3:1
# text = lol what was the wind doing on the floor?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the wind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the wind *not said here* |  |  | the floor |  |  | 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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snoring loudly and shaking the whole hut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t3:o1:1
# text = snoring loudly and shaking the whole hut
1	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snore** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund |  | the whole hut |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hut=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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sitting up and staring at the corn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t3:o2:1
# text = sitting up and staring at the corn
1	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the corn | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at corn=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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lying flat on boards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t3:o3:1
# text = lying flat on boards
1	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | boards |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on board=Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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chilling stretched out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t3:o4:1
# text = chilling stretched out
1	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V» |

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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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