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title: Who came strolling back from the other world, like? — Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who came strolling back from the other world, like? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 155 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

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Who came strolling back from the other world, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** come, stroll back · **To what, where:** other world

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 155 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion» 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/155-pg11339-part25/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t7:1
# text = Who came strolling back from the other world, like?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	strolling	stroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stroll back** | gerund |  |  |  | the other world |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from world=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 {#o1}

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The sick bloke, pale as a ghost and looking dead as a doorknob

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t7:o1:1
# text = The sick bloke, pale as a ghost and looking dead as a doorknob
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	doorknob	doorknob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as a doorknob; dead *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The sick bloke, pale as a ghost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t7:o2:1
# text = The sick bloke, pale as a ghost
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The old geezer, pale and grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t7:o3:1
# text = The old geezer, pale and grey
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	geezer	geezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The whole village, creeping back from the grave like zombies, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:155-pg11339-part25:t7:o4:1
# text = The whole village, creeping back from the grave like zombies, innit
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	zombies	zombie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep back** | gerund | the whole village and innit *not said here* |  |  | the grave like zombies |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from grave=Trajectory |

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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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