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title: Bro, wait, who was actually chatting up the King at that window? — The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, wait, who was actually chatting up the King at that window? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1866 «The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked, then turned into a Blue Bird» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 1 · ★ · The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked,…

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Bro, wait, who was actually chatting up the King at that window?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, chat up · **To what, where:** King, window

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1866 «The Blue Bird, King Charming, part 3: the King is tricked, then turned into a Blue Bird» 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/1866-pg7277-part3/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t1:1
# text = Bro, wait, who was actually chatting up the King at that window?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chat up** *speech: other* | past · progressive |  | the King |  | that window |  | actually *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Fiordelisa's maid, in disguise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t1:o1:1
# text = Fiordelisa's maid, in disguise
1	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fiordelisa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t1:o2:1
# text = Fiordelisa
1	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Fairy, dressed as a maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t1:o3:1
# text = The Fairy, dressed as a maid
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  | the Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  | as a maid | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Turritella, faking it as Fiordelisa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1866-pg7277-part3:t1:o4:1
# text = Turritella, faking it as Fiordelisa
1	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	faking	fake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fake** | gerund | Turritella | it |  |  |  | as Fiordelisa | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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