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title: Hang on, how were the Douglas lot getting up? — Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Dou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hang on, how were the Douglas lot getting up? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

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Hang on, how were the Douglas lot getting up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Douglas lot · **What happens:** hang on, be, get up · **To what, where:** Douglas lot

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» 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/345-pg18442-part5/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t6:1
# text = Hang on, how were the Douglas lot getting up?
1	Hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the Douglas lot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get up** | gerund | the Douglas lot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Creeping along with shields up high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t6:o1:1
# text = Creeping along with shields up high
1	Creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	along	along	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	shields	shield	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shield up** | present | Creeping |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sneaking through the dark trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t6:o2:1
# text = Sneaking through the dark trees
1	Sneaking	sneak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneak** | gerund |  |  |  | the dark trees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory |

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

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Crawling along with ladders on the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t6:o3:1
# text = Crawling along with ladders on the grass
1	Crawling	crawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	along	along	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | gerund |  |  |  | the grass |  | with ladders; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dragging ladders quietly along the edge of the moat in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:345-pg18442-part5:t6:o4:1
# text = Dragging ladders quietly along the edge of the moat in the dark
1	Dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | gerund |  | ladders |  | the dark |  | along the edge of the moat; quietly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme |

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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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