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title: Wait, what were the savage peeps making the Prince do all day? — Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what were the savage peeps making the Prince do all day? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the r…

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Wait, what were the savage peeps making the Prince do all day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, savage · **What happens:** wait, be, make

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to the Fairy» 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/1895-pg7277-part32/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t4:1
# text = Wait, what were the savage peeps making the Prince do all day?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	savage	savage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	peeps	peep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	xcomp	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the savage |  |  |  |  | peep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the savage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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minding sheep in the cold fields all day and night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t4:o1:1
# text = minding sheep in the cold fields all day and night
1	minding	mind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | gerund |  | sheep |  | the cold fields | day |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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minding sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t4:o2:1
# text = minding sheep
1	minding	mind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | gerund |  | sheep |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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herding goats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t4:o3:1
# text = herding goats
1	herding	herd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **herd** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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minding the sheep of the savage people on the hills from dawn to dusk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1895-pg7277-part32:t4:o4:1
# text = minding the sheep of the savage people on the hills from dawn to dusk
1	minding	mind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | gerund |  | the sheep of the savage people on the hills |  |  | dawn; dusk |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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