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title: yo, who was spying on the stepsis in the woods, fr? — Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, who was spying on the stepsis in the woods, fr? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» 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 1 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the…

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yo, who was spying on the stepsis in the woods, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** spy · **To what, where:** stepsis

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» 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/1548-pg540-part45/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t1:1
# text = yo, who was spying on the stepsis in the woods, fr?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	spying	spy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stepsis	stepsis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spy** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the stepsis |  | in the woods and fr | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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the waiting-maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t1:o1:1
# text = the waiting-maid
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the nurse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t1:o2:1
# text = the nurse
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the queen's spy hiding in the wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t1:o3:1
# text = the queen's spy hiding in the wood
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund | the queen's spy *not said here* |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the stepmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:t1:o4:1
# text = the stepmother
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stepmother	stepmother	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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