--- title: bruh, what were the king's huntsmen doing on the ride? — Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shephe… · tree and pragmatics description: bruh, what were the king's huntsmen doing on the ride? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/666-pg2435-part6/t14/) [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/) / [Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shephe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/666-pg2435-part6/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast… bruh, what were the king's huntsmen doing on the ride? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** huntsmen · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** ride This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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/666-pg2435-part6/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t14:1 # text = bruh, what were the king's huntsmen doing on the ride? 1 bruh bruh INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 huntsmen huntsman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 9 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the king's huntsmen | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | gerund | the king's huntsmen *not said here* | | | the ride | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} chasing a red deer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t14:o1:1 # text = chasing a red deer 1 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | gerund | | a red deer | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} blowing their horns ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t14:o2:1 # text = blowing their horns 1 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** | gerund | | their horns | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} hunting ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t14:o3:1 # text = hunting 1 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} riding fast ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:666-pg2435-part6:t14:o4:1 # text = riding fast 1 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride** | gerund | | | | | | fast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | **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. 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