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title: What was the weaver busy making, like? — Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the weaver busy making, like? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1303 «Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves the true winner and chooses him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong
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# Test 8 · ★ · Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves th…

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What was the weaver busy making, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, make

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1303 «Book of Tales, Ian the Fisher's Son: the princess saves the true winner and chooses him» 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/1303-pg3454-part28/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t8:1
# text = What was the weaver busy making, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	weaver	weaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | the weaver *obl:unmarked*; busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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Shoes for the queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t8:o1:1
# text = Shoes for the queen
1	Shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t8:o2:1
# text = Rug
1	Rug	rug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Cloth for the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t8:o3:1
# text = Cloth for the king
1	Cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1303-pg3454-part28:t8:o4:1
# text = Coat
1	Coat	coat	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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