--- title: Wait, what was the peasant doing when the second girl showed up? — pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what was the peasant doing when the second girl showed up? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1777-pg641-part28/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1777-pg641-part28/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,… Wait, what was the peasant doing when the second girl showed up? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, second girl · **What happens:** wait, do, show up This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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/1777-pg641-part28/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t3:1 # text = Wait, what was the peasant doing when the second girl showed up? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 peasant peasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 compound _ _ 7 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **do** | past · progressive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 3 | **show up** | past | the second girl | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 {#o1} Eating ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t3:o1:1 # text = Eating 1 Eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Washing his head ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t3:o2:1 # text = Washing his head 1 Washing wash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wash** | gerund | | his head | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Shaving his beard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t3:o3:1 # text = Shaving his beard 1 Shaving shave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shave** | gerund | | his beard | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Sleeping ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1777-pg641-part28:t3:o4:1 # text = Sleeping 1 Sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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