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title: So when the spectre showed up, what was the dog doing? — Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: So when the spectre showed up, what was the dog doing? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

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So when the spectre showed up, what was the dog doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** spectre · **What happens:** show up, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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/686-pg2435-part26/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t12:1
# text = So when the spectre showed up, what was the dog doing?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spectre	spectre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show up** | past | the spectre |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Barking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t12:o1:1
# text = Barking
1	Barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t12:o2:1
# text = Sat
1	Sat	Saturday	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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Howling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t12:o3:1
# text = Howling
1	Howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:686-pg2435-part26:t12:o4:1
# text = Ran
1	Ran	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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