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title: What were the two kids doing with the sheep all day? — Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees… · tree and pragmatics
description: What were the two kids doing with the sheep all day? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1876 «Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve maidens, and Rosanella returns to marry the Prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve ma…

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What were the two kids doing with the sheep all day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two kids · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** two kids

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1876 «Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve maidens, and Rosanella returns to marry the Prince» 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/1876-pg7277-part13/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1876-pg7277-part13:t10:1
# text = What were the two kids doing with the sheep all day?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the two kids |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the two kids *not said here* |  |  |  | day | with the sheep | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Grazing them and chilling in the shade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1876-pg7277-part13:t10:o1:1
# text = Grazing them and chilling in the shade
1	Grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer |
| 2 | **chill** | gerund |  |  |  | the shade |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Herding them to the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1876-pg7277-part13:t10:o2:1
# text = Herding them to the river
1	Herding	herd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **herd** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | to the river | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to river=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sleeping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1876-pg7277-part13:t10:o3:1
# text = Sleeping
1	Sleeping	sleeping	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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Watching them graze by the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1876-pg7277-part13:t10:o4:1
# text = Watching them graze by the lake
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	graze	graze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **graze** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the lake | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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