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title: what was dad sitting on, all fancy? — A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: M… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was dad sitting on, all fancy? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 2045 «A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine nearly kills Theseus before his father recognizes him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 8 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

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what was dad sitting on, all fancy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** sit on · **To what, where:** all

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2045 «A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine nearly kills Theseus before his father recognizes him» 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/2045-pg976-part4/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t8:1
# text = what was dad sitting on, all fancy?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
8	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit on** | past · progressive | dad | all |  |  |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent what=Theme all=Destination |

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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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a gilded royal seat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t8:o1:1
# text = a gilded royal seat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a stool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t8:o2:1
# text = a stool
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a magnificent throne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t8:o3:1
# text = a magnificent throne
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	throne	throne	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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a bench

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2045-pg976-part4:t8:o4:1
# text = a bench
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bench	bench	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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