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title: ok what was the Giant making everyone do all day, mate? — Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok what was the Giant making everyone do all day, mate? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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 wron
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# Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…

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ok what was the Giant making everyone do all day, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** be, make, do · **To what, where:** everyone

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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/1920-pg7277-part57/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t4:1
# text = ok what was the Giant making everyone do all day, mate?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | everyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | 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 {#o1}

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stitching the tapestries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t4:o1:1
# text = stitching the tapestries
1	stitching	stitch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tapestries	tapestry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stitch** | gerund |  | the tapestries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tapestry=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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spinning and dyeing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t4:o2:1
# text = spinning and dyeing
1	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	dyeing	dye	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dye** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sewing and working in the great hall all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t4:o3:1
# text = sewing and working in the great hall all day
1	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	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 | **sew** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in the great hall | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hall=Theme |

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

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sewing and working

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1920-pg7277-part57:t4:o4:1
# text = sewing and working
1	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «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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