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title: wait, what sound did the wasp make? — Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what sound did the wasp make? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1714 «Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza flies off, Iwanich lies to his father, and the beasts close in» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 6 · ★ · Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza f…

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wait, what sound did the wasp make?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, make

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1714 «Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza flies off, Iwanich lies to his father, and the beasts close in» 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/1714-pg640-part38/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1714-pg640-part38:t6:1
# text = wait, what sound did the wasp make?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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buzzing nonstop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1714-pg640-part38:t6:o1:1
# text = buzzing nonstop
1	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	nonstop	nonstop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | gerund |  | nonstop |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nonstop=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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buzzing softly now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1714-pg640-part38:t6:o2:1
# text = buzzing softly now
1	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buzz** | gerund |  |  |  |  | now | softly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a loud angry hum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1714-pg640-part38:t6:o3:1
# text = a loud angry hum
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hum	hum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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loud buzz

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1714-pg640-part38:t6:o4:1
# text = loud buzz
1	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	buzz	buzz	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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