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title: lol which dude was raking the ashes in the chimney corner? — Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printani… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol which dude was raking the ashes in the chimney corner? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is…

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lol which dude was raking the ashes in the chimney corner?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dude · **What happens:** rake · **To what, where:** ashes, chimney corner

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» 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/1510-pg540-part7/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t4:1
# text = lol which dude was raking the ashes in the chimney corner?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	raking	rake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rake** | past · progressive | which dude | the ashes |  | the chimney corner |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ash=Theme in corner=Trajectory |

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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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Jack-the-Chatterer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t4:o1:1
# text = Jack-the-Chatterer
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Chatterer	Chatterer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Merlin's son

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t4:o2:1
# text = Merlin's son
1	Merlin	Merlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	son	son	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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Fanfaronade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t4:o3:1
# text = Fanfaronade
1	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Halvor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1510-pg540-part7:t4:o4:1
# text = Halvor
1	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	NNP	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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