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title: What was that fog bloke doing with his sack, like? — Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was that fog bloke doing with his sack, like? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 10 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

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What was that fog bloke doing with his sack, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fog bloke · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** fog bloke

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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/1642-pg5615-part31/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t10:1
# text = What was that fog bloke doing with his sack, 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	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	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 | **is a** | past |  | fog bloke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | fog bloke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with his sack | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Trying to bag fog, that's his job

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t10:o1:1
# text = Trying to bag fog, that's his job
1	Trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund |  | bag fog |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | his job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just sleeping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t10:o2:1
# text = Just sleeping
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Selling fog, that's his trade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t10:o3:1
# text = Selling fog, that's his trade
1	Selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | fog |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fog=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | his trade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Collecting rain, that's his job

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t10:o4:1
# text = Collecting rain, that's his job
1	Collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | gerund |  | rain |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | his job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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