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title: Lol, what's the Miller's missus necking by the fire? — The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what's the Miller's missus necking by the fire? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…

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Lol, what's the Miller's missus necking by the fire?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** missus · **What happens:** be, neck · **To what, where:** missus

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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/2036-pg902-part6/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t11:1
# text = Lol, what's the Miller's missus necking by the fire?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	missus	missus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	necking	neck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Miller's missus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **neck** | gerund | the Miller's missus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn marry-36.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Warm ale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t11:o1:1
# text = Warm ale
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t11:o2:1
# text = Tea
1	Tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t11:o3:1
# text = Milk
1	Milk	milk	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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Hot cider

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2036-pg902-part6:t11:o4:1
# text = Hot cider
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	cider	cider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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