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title: What was that voice in the cabin doing? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was that voice in the cabin doing? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

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What was that voice in the cabin doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** voice · **What happens:** do

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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/2016-pg7885-part35/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:t7:1
# text = What was that voice in the cabin doing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · progressive | voice in the cabin |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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Yelling for the police, the cheek of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:t7:o1:1
# text = Yelling for the police, the cheek of it
1	Yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the police | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for police=Recipient |

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

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Shouting, "tell me a story", the cheek

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:t7:o2:1
# text = Shouting, "tell me a story", the cheek
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  | the cheek |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a story | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Singing, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:t7:o3:1
# text = Singing, mate
1	Singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Laughing and singing, what a racket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2016-pg7885-part35:t7:o4:1
# text = Laughing and singing, what a racket
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	racket	racket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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