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title: oi, what was the princess busy with? — Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse,… · tree and pragmatics
description: oi, what was the princess busy with? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

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oi, what was the princess busy with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** oi · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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/1186-pg3027-part52/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t13:1
# text = oi, what was the princess busy with?
1	oi	oi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | oi | the princess |  |  |  |  | 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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sweeping the yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t13:o1:1
# text = sweeping the yard
1	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | gerund |  | the yard |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
washing the linen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t13:o2:1
# text = washing the linen
1	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | gerund |  | the linen |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
feeding her hens in the yard by the barn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t13:o3:1
# text = feeding her hens in the yard by the barn
1	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | gerund |  | her hens |  |  |  | in the yard; by the barn | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hen=Value in yard=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
feeding her hens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t13:o4:1
# text = feeding her hens
1	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | gerund |  |  | her hens |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Recipient |

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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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