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title: The cats are gassing about the lovers, yeah? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: The cats are gassing about the lovers, yeah? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 862 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy climbs the mountain, meets the Ice Maiden, and loses his ring» 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 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy clim…

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The cats are gassing about the lovers, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cats · **What happens:** gas

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 862 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy climbs the mountain, meets the Ice Maiden, and loses his ring» 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/862-pg27200-part73/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:862-pg27200-part73:t6:1
# text = The cats are gassing about the lovers, yeah?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gassing	gas	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gas** | present · progressive | the cats |  |  |  |  | about the lovers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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Yeah, they're on about a picnic, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:862-pg27200-part73:t6:o1:1
# text = Yeah, they're on about a picnic, mate
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	picnic	picnic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  | a picnic |  | mate *vocative*; about *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they're chatting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:862-pg27200-part73:t6:o2:1
# text = Yeah, they're chatting
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chatting	chat	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 | **chat** *speech: other* | present · progressive | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they're on about wanting a fight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:862-pg27200-part73:t6:o3:1
# text = Yeah, they're on about wanting a fight
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present · progressive | they | a fight |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fight=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah mate, they're on about the wine, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:862-pg27200-part73:t6:o4:1
# text = Nah mate, they're on about the wine, bruv
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | about the wine and bruv | tree rules |

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