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title: What did the gazelle munch on while it was chilling? — Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the gazelle munch on while it was chilling? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

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What did the gazelle munch on while it was chilling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** gazelle · **What happens:** do, munch on, chill

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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/1773-pg641-part24/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t9:1
# text = What did the gazelle munch on while it was chilling?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	munch	munch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **munch on** | present | the gazelle |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **chill** | past · progressive | gazelle |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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Milk and rice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t9:o1:1
# text = Milk and rice
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t9:o2:1
# text = Water
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lamb and bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t9:o3:1
# text = Lamb and bread
1	Lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Honey and figs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1773-pg641-part24:t9:o4:1
# text = Honey and figs
1	Honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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