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title: Mate, what was the wife doing with all the money? — Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what was the wife doing with all the money? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

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Mate, what was the wife doing with all the money?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate, wife · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** wife

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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/1775-pg641-part26/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t12:1
# text = Mate, what was the wife doing with all the money?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	money	money	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 | **is a** | past | Mate and the wife | the wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with all money | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Feasting loads of people daily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t12:o1:1
# text = Feasting loads of people daily
1	Feasting	feast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feast** | gerund |  | loads of people |  |  |  | daily *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Buying clothes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t12:o2:1
# text = Buying clothes
1	Buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | gerund |  | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hosting feasts for many folk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t12:o3:1
# text = Hosting feasts for many folk
1	Hosting	host	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	feasts	feast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **host** | gerund |  | feasts |  |  |  | for many folk | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Throwing parties for the poor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t12:o4:1
# text = Throwing parties for the poor
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund |  | parties |  |  |  | for the poor | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme |

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