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title: What were the courtiers doing at supper? — Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What were the courtiers doing at supper? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1478 «Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65: Darling kicks his dog, is pricked by the ring, and Celia vanishes from her locked room» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65: Darling kicks his do…

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What were the courtiers doing at supper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** courtiers · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** courtiers, supper

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1478 «Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65: Darling kicks his dog, is pricked by the ring, and Celia vanishes from her locked room» 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/1478-pg503-part65/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1478-pg503-part65:t8:1
# text = What were the courtiers doing at supper?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the courtiers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the courtiers *not said here* |  |  | supper |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Playing games and gossiping about the shepherdess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1478-pg503-part65:t8:o1:1
# text = Playing games and gossiping about the shepherdess
1	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	gossiping	gossip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  | games |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 2 | **gossip** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the shepherdess | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about shepherdess=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Drinking and joking about the nurse's cooking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1478-pg503-part65:t8:o2:1
# text = Drinking and joking about the nurse's cooking
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about the nurse's cooking | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cooking=Topic |
| 3 | **cook** |  | the nurse |  |  |  |  |  | nom cooking «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eating roast pork

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1478-pg503-part65:t8:o3:1
# text = Eating roast pork
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pork	pork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  | roast pork |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pork=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Getting Darling wasted on wine and hyping his rage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1478-pg503-part65:t8:o4:1
# text = Getting Darling wasted on wine and hyping his rage
1	Getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	Darling	darling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hyping	hype	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund |  | Darling wasted wine |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wine=Stimulus |
| 2 | **waste** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hype** | gerund |  | his rage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rage** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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