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title: Real talk, why's the doc not stayin' at court? — Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, why's the doc not stayin' at court? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1195 «Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras kills the Stalo's dog and takes his gold, then the sick king gets a magic slipper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras ki…

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Real talk, why's the doc not stayin' at court?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** doc · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** stayin, court

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1195 «Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras kills the Stalo's dog and takes his gold, then the sick king gets a magic slipper» 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/1195-pg3027-part61/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t13:1
# text = Real talk, why's the doc not stayin' at court?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	doc	doc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	stayin	stayin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the doc | stayin |  | court |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He wanted to travel home soon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t13:o1:1
# text = He wanted to travel home soon
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home, soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He is lazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t13:o2:1
# text = He is lazy
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lazy	lazy	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** | present | He |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Sick folks were waiting at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t13:o3:1
# text = Sick folks were waiting at home
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · progressive | Sick folks |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His horse was sick at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t13:o4:1
# text = His horse was sick at home
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | His horse |  |  | home |  | sick *property* | tree rules |

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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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