---
title: Mad, what's the Son of Adam bloke moaning about? — English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad, what's the Son of Adam bloke moaning about? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 251 «English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury the Moon in the bog, and the marsh folk find her again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/251-pg14241-part18/t8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/251-pg14241-part18/) / t8

# Test 8 · ★ · English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury th…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mad, what's the Son of Adam bloke moaning about?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Adam bloke · **What happens:** be, moan · **To what, where:** Son

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 251 «English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury the Moon in the bog, and the marsh folk find her again» 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/251-pg14241-part18/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:251-pg14241-part18:t8:1
# text = Mad, what's the Son of Adam bloke moaning about?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Son |  |  |  | of Adam bloke | tree rules |
| 2 | **moan** | gerund | Adam bloke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
having to dig in the rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:251-pg14241-part18:t8:o1:1
# text = having to dig in the rain
1	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dig** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the rain |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in rain=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
working in the cold snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:251-pg14241-part18:t8:o2:1
# text = working in the cold snow
1	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in the cold snow | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in snow=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
having to graft in the heat while his mates just sat and sang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:251-pg14241-part18:t8:o3:1
# text = having to graft in the heat while his mates just sat and sang
1	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	graft	graft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
13	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | graft |  | the heat |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graft=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | past | his mates |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | having |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
having to graft in the heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:251-pg14241-part18:t8:o4:1
# text = having to graft in the heat
1	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	graft	graft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | graft |  | the heat |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/251-pg14241-part18/t7/)
- next →: [English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the…, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/251-pg14241-part18/t9/)
- ↑ back to [English Folk Tales, The Lost Moon: the Evil Things bury the Moon in the bog, and the marsh folk find her again](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/251-pg14241-part18/)