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title: wait, what's she need the bloke to do, then? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comra… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what's she need the bloke to do, then? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1735 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Irishman frees the Princess but is pinned to sleep by the lad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Ir…

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wait, what's she need the bloke to do, then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, she · **What happens:** wait, be, do

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1735 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 59: the Irishman frees the Princess but is pinned to sleep by the lad» 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/1735-pg640-part59/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t3:1
# text = wait, what's she need the bloke to do, then?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	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* |  |  |  | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | she |  |  |  |  | need *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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sit in the little room the whole time, not move a muscle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t3:o1:1
# text = sit in the little room the whole time, not move a muscle
1	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the little room | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **not** **move** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a muscle |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wait in the back room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t3:o2:1
# text = wait in the back room
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the back room |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sit quiet in that tiny room and not come out for anything, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t3:o3:1
# text = sit quiet in that tiny room and not come out for anything, mate
1	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | that tiny room |  | quiet *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 2 | **not** **come out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for anything; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sit in the little room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1735-pg640-part59:t3:o4:1
# text = sit in the little room
1	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the little room |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |

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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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