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title: Wait, was he only pretending to be a shoemaker? — Gutenberg 3027, Gilguerillo, part 63:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, was he only pretending to be a shoemaker? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1197 «Gutenberg 3027, Gilguerillo, part 63: the chemist's boy heals the king's foot and wins the princess's heart» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 3 · ★ · Gutenberg 3027, Gilguerillo, part 63: the chemist's boy he…

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Wait, was he only pretending to be a shoemaker?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, he · **What happens:** wait, pretend, be · **To what, where:** shoemaker

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1197 «Gutenberg 3027, Gilguerillo, part 63: the chemist's boy heals the king's foot and wins the princess's heart» 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/1197-pg3027-part63/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1197-pg3027-part63:t3:1
# text = Wait, was he only pretending to be a shoemaker?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pretend** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | a shoemaker |  |  |  |  | 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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Nah, he was legit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1197-pg3027-part63:t3:o1:1
# text = Nah, he was legit
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	legit	legit	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 | he |  |  |  |  | legit *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he was a proper shoemaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1197-pg3027-part63:t3:o2:1
# text = Nah, he was a proper shoemaker
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | he | a proper shoemaker |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he was totally faking it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1197-pg3027-part63:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he was totally faking it
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	faking	fake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fake** | past · progressive | he | it |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, dead fake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1197-pg3027-part63:t3:o4:1
# text = Yeah, dead fake
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fake	fake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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