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title: Mad, what were the wood-nymphs doing all night long? — Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad, what were the wood-nymphs doing all night long? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 7 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

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Mad, what were the wood-nymphs doing all night long?

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

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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/1801-pg641-part52/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t7:1
# text = Mad, what were the wood-nymphs doing all night long?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the wood nymphs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the wood nymphs *not said here* |  |  |  | night | long *property* | 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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Dancing till dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t7:o1:1
# text = Dancing till dawn
1	Dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	till	till	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Singing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t7:o2:1
# text = Singing
1	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Feasting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t7:o3:1
# text = Feasting
1	Feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Spinning in a ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1801-pg641-part52:t7:o4:1
# text = Spinning in a ring
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  | a ring |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in ring=Trajectory |

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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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