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title: was Mrs D sewing for Michael's birthday? — Peter Pan, Peter Breaks Through, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: was Mrs D sewing for Michael's birthday? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 311 «Peter Pan, Peter Breaks Through, part 2: Mrs. Darling hears about Peter, then a boy drops into the nursery.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 8 · ★ · Peter Pan, Peter Breaks Through, part 2: Mrs. Darling hear…

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was Mrs D sewing for Michael's birthday?

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

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 311 «Peter Pan, Peter Breaks Through, part 2: Mrs. Darling hears about Peter, then a boy drops into the nursery.» 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/311-pg16-part2/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:311-pg16-part2:t8:1
# text = was Mrs D sewing for Michael's birthday?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	D	D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Mrs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sew** | gerund | Mrs |  |  |  |  | for Michael's birthday | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for birthday=Beneficiary |

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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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Yeah, for Michael

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:311-pg16-part2:t8:o1:1
# text = Yeah, for Michael
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	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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Yeah, for Wendy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:311-pg16-part2:t8:o2:1
# text = Yeah, for Wendy
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Wendy	Wendy	PROPN	NNP	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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Nah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:311-pg16-part2:t8:o3:1
# text = Nah
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:311-pg16-part2:t8:o4:1
# text = Nope
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	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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