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title: Ha, what did Whitey finally stop doing? — Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ha, what did Whitey finally stop doing? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

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Ha, what did Whitey finally stop doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, stop · **To what, where:** Whitey

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» 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/1887-pg7277-part24/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t8:1
# text = Ha, what did Whitey finally stop doing?
1	Ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Whitey |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whitey=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stop** | present |  |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Eating slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t8:o1:1
# text = Eating slowly
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Being greedy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t8:o2:1
# text = Being greedy
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	cop	_	_
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | greedy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Always pushing in front at the dinner table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t8:o3:1
# text = Always pushing in front at the dinner table
1	Always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  | front |  | at the dinner table; always *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at table=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Taking the biggest piece of bread every single time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1887-pg7277-part24:t8:o4:1
# text = Taking the biggest piece of bread every single time
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | the biggest piece of bread |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |

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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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