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title: Dad was dancing round with Michael on his back, wasn't he? — Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Da… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad was dancing round with Michael on his back, wasn't he? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 312 «Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the shadow, and the parents blame themselves for that Friday» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 7 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the s…

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Dad was dancing round with Michael on his back, wasn't he?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dad · **What happens:** dance, not be · **To what, where:** back, Michael

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 312 «Peter Pan, The Shadow, part 3: Mrs. Darling rolls up the shadow, and the parents blame themselves for that Friday» 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/312-pg16-part3/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:312-pg16-part3:t7:1
# text = Dad was dancing round with Michael on his back, wasn't he?
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past · progressive | Dad |  |  | Dad's back |  | with Michael; round *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Location |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past |  | Michael |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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yeah, he was on his back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:312-pg16-part3:t7:o1:1
# text = yeah, he was on his back
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  | his back |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, it was a proper romp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:312-pg16-part3:t7:o2:1
# text = yeah, it was a proper romp
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	romp	romp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a proper romp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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nah, he was dancing alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:312-pg16-part3:t7:o3:1
# text = nah, he was dancing alone
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, it was a proper romp round the room with Michael yelling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:312-pg16-part3:t7:o4:1
# text = yeah, it was a proper romp round the room with Michael yelling
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	romp	romp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	yelling	yelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a proper romp |  |  |  | round the room with Michael yelling | tree rules |

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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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