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title: Yo, what was Tiidu doing in the gardens? — Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: T… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what was Tiidu doing in the gardens? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 678 «Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla and becomes a scullion» 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla…

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Yo, what was Tiidu doing in the gardens?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tiidu · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** gardens

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 678 «Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla and becomes a scullion» 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/678-pg2435-part18/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:678-pg2435-part18:t9:1
# text = Yo, what was Tiidu doing in the gardens?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · progressive | Tiidu |  |  | the gardens |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Just relaxing and watching folks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:678-pg2435-part18:t9:o1:1
# text = Just relaxing and watching folks
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	relaxing	relaxing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	_
5	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | folks |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme |

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

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Just chilling and people watching

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:678-pg2435-part18:t9:o2:1
# text = Just chilling and people watching
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chill** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Walking around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:678-pg2435-part18:t9:o3:1
# text = Walking around
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk around** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Just hanging out and eating

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:678-pg2435-part18:t9:o4:1
# text = Just hanging out and eating
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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