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title: Wait, what was the cook doing? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golde… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what was the cook doing? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 255 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: Jack sneaks past the sleeping monsters, steals the apples, and heads home» 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 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: J…

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Wait, what was the cook doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be, do · **To what, where:** cook

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 255 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: Jack sneaks past the sleeping monsters, steals the apples, and heads home» 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/255-pg14241-part22/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t5:1
# text = Wait, what was the cook doing?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	csubj	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the cook |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Lying flat on the kitchen floor, totally zonked out, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t5:o1:1
# text = Lying flat on the kitchen floor, totally zonked out, innit
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	zonked	zonk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen floor |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |
| 2 | **zonk out** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | totally *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stirring the pot, all busy, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t5:o2:1
# text = Stirring the pot, all busy, innit
1	Stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stir** | gerund |  | the pot |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pot=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lying on the floor, zonked out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t5:o3:1
# text = Lying on the floor, zonked out
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	zonked	zonk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |
| 2 | **zonk out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Chatting to the maids, proper loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:255-pg14241-part22:t5:o4:1
# text = Chatting to the maids, proper loud
1	Chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the maids; loud *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «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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