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title: what did Manstin wanna do with the old dude's spot? — Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did Manstin wanna do with the old dude's spot? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1274 «Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the camp-eater is slain, then Manstin trades eyes with a blind grandfather and falls into the brook» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the c…

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what did Manstin wanna do with the old dude's spot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Manstin · **What happens:** do

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1274 «Indian Fairy Tales, Manstin the Rabbit, part 11: Iya the camp-eater is slain, then Manstin trades eyes with a blind grandfather and falls into the brook» 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/1274-pg338-part11/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1274-pg338-part11:t10:1
# text = what did Manstin wanna do with the old dude's spot?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Manstin	Manstin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	wanna	wanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | Manstin |  |  |  |  | with the old dude's spot | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Smoke willow bark and lean on a tent pole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1274-pg338-part11:t10:o1:1
# text = Smoke willow bark and lean on a tent pole
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean** | infinitive |  |  |  | a tent pole |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pole=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sit by the fire and sing songs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1274-pg338-part11:t10:o2:1
# text = Sit by the fire and sing songs
1	Sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | you *not said here* | songs |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Sleep all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1274-pg338-part11:t10:o3:1
# text = Sleep all day
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eat the food from his bags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1274-pg338-part11:t10:o4:1
# text = Eat the food from his bags
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | the food |  | his bags |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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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