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title: Ayy, how's mum lookin when he gets back? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayy, how's mum lookin when he gets back? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 13 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

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Ayy, how's mum lookin when he gets back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ayy · **What happens:** lookin, get back

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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/1789-pg641-part40/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t13:1
# text = Ayy, how's mum lookin when he gets back?
1	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lookin	lookin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lookin** | past | Ayy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get back** | present | Ayy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Sad and paler

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t13:o1:1
# text = Sad and paler
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	paler	pale	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Angry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t13:o2:1
# text = Angry
1	Angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t13:o3:1
# text = Happy
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cheerful and rosy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t13:o4:1
# text = Cheerful and rosy
1	Cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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