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title: What's sitting in the barrel that Ring can't stop staring at? — Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's sitting in the barrel that Ring can't stop staring at? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1730 «Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus tries to drown Little Klaus and drowns the old driver by mistake, then a prince finds a gold ring in a barrel» of the books course of Mova's primary scho
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus t…

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What's sitting in the barrel that Ring can't stop staring at?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ring · **What happens:** sit, not stop, stare · **To what, where:** barrel

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1730 «Andersen, Little Klaus and Big Klaus, part 54: Big Klaus tries to drown Little Klaus and drowns the old driver by mistake, then a prince finds a gold ring in a barrel» 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/1730-pg640-part54/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1730-pg640-part54:t13:1
# text = What's sitting in the barrel that Ring can't stop staring at?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present · progressive |  |  |  | the barrel |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in barrel=Location |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | can | Ring |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **stare** | gerund | Ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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A gold ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1730-pg640-part54:t13:o1:1
# text = A gold ring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Some old bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1730-pg640-part54:t13:o2:1
# text = Some old bones
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1730-pg640-part54:t13:o3:1
# text = A coin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coin	coin	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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A silver key

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1730-pg640-part54:t13:o4:1
# text = A silver key
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	key	key	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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