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title: Wait, what did the old men say the Dragon was doing? — Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the old men say the Dragon was doing? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45:…

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Wait, what did the old men say the Dragon was doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, old men, Dragon · **What happens:** wait, say, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» 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/1721-pg640-part45/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t3:1
# text = Wait, what did the old men say the Dragon was doing?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the old men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past · progressive | the Dragon |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Napping, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t3:o1:1
# text = Napping, bro
1	Napping	nap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Starting his sleep year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t3:o2:1
# text = Starting his sleep year
1	Starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | gerund |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Waking up for winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t3:o3:1
# text = Waking up for winter
1	Waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | gerund |  |  |  |  | winter |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Starting a long nap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t3:o4:1
# text = Starting a long nap
1	Starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | gerund |  | a long nap |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Eventuality |

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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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