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title: Yo, what's Walter banging on as he goes through the wood? — Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what's Walter banging on as he goes through the wood? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 3 · ★ · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

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Yo, what's Walter banging on as he goes through the wood?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Walter · **What happens:** bang on, go · **To what, where:** wood

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» 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/1287-pg3454-part12/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t3:1
# text = Yo, what's Walter banging on as he goes through the wood?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	banging	bang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bang on** | present · progressive | Walter |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | Walter |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial\_Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t3:o1:1
# text = His drum
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A pan lid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t3:o2:1
# text = A pan lid
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t3:o3:1
# text = Pot
1	Pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t3:o4:1
# text = Stick
1	Stick	stick	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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**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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