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title: wait, why was Stan so chill about the moon thing? — Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, why was Stan so chill about the moon thing? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1770 «Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits the dragon and his mother» 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 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits th…

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wait, why was Stan so chill about the moon thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** Stan

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1770 «Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits the dragon and his mother» 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/1770-pg641-part21/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t2:1
# text = wait, why was Stan so chill about the moon thing?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	chill	chill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **is a** | past |  | Stan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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cause he really thought the moon was close

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t2:o1:1
# text = cause he really thought the moon was close
1	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | he | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot moon=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | cause |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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cause the dragon was scared of the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t2:o2:1
# text = cause the dragon was scared of the moon
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **is** | past | the dragon |  |  |  |  | of the moon; scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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cause he was just messing with the dragon, bruh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t2:o3:1
# text = cause he was just messing with the dragon, bruh
1	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	messing	mess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mess** | past · progressive | cause |  |  |  |  | with the dragon | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no clue, bruh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1770-pg641-part21:t2:o4:1
# text = no clue, bruh
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	clue	clue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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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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