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title: what was bubbling over the fire, no cap? — Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was bubbling over the fire, no cap? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

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what was bubbling over the fire, no cap?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** bubble · **To what, where:** fire

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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/1732-pg640-part56/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t7:1
# text = what was bubbling over the fire, no cap?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bubble** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the fire and no cap |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over fire=Location |

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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 big porridge-pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t7:o1:1
# text = a big porridge-pot
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pot	pot	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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a giant cauldron full of boiling porridge and bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t7:o2:1
# text = a giant cauldron full of boiling porridge and bones
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	obl	_	_
7	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | gerund |  | porridge and bones |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a big iron cauldron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t7:o3:1
# text = a big iron cauldron
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a huge black porridge-pot on three iron legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1732-pg640-part56:t7:o4:1
# text = a huge black porridge-pot on three iron legs
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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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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