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title: Okay, so years later, what are the tourists reading? — pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives af… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay, so years later, what are the tourists reading? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 864 «pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives after his ring, is claimed by the Ice Maiden, and Babette waits out the storm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 8 · ★ · pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives after his ring, is cla…

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Okay, so years later, what are the tourists reading?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tourists · **What happens:** be, read · **To what, where:** tourists

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 864 «pg27200, The Ice Maiden: Rudy dives after his ring, is claimed by the Ice Maiden, and Babette waits out the storm» 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/864-pg27200-part75/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t8:1
# text = Okay, so years later, what are the tourists reading?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the tourists |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | the tourists |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Bright red guide-books that they keep reading while the steamboat sails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t8:o1:1
# text = Bright red guide-books that they keep reading while the steamboat sails
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	steamboat	steamboat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | books *= book* | Bright red guide books |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | Bright red guide books *not said here* | the steamboat sails |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Topic |

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

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Their red guide-books

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t8:o2:1
# text = Their red guide-books
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Their travel brochures

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t8:o3:1
# text = Their travel brochures
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	brochures	brochure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Old photos of the valley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:864-pg27200-part75:t8:o4:1
# text = Old photos of the valley
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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