--- title: Wait, were the spectres dancing or sleeping? — Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, p… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, were the spectres dancing or sleeping? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/906-pg27200-part117/t13/) [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/) / [Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/906-pg27200-part117/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon sh… Wait, were the spectres dancing or sleeping? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, spectres · **What happens:** wait, be, dance, sleep · **To what, where:** spectres This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 906 «Andersen's Tales, What the Moon Saw, part 117: the Moon shows a dead actor, a broken pitcher, a desert caravan and a doll in a tree» 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/906-pg27200-part117/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t13:1 # text = Wait, were the spectres dancing or sleeping? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 spectres spectre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 dancing dance VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sleeping sleep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | | the spectres | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **dance** | gerund | the spectres *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sleep** | gerund | the spectres *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Dancing along the long walk ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t13:o1:1 # text = Dancing along the long walk 1 Dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 along along ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | gerund | | | | the long walk | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along walk=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} Singing near the old well ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t13:o2:1 # text = Singing near the old well 1 Singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 near near ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obl _ _ 5 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | the old | | well *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near old=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} Pointing at the sleeping men ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t13:o3:1 # text = Pointing at the sleeping men 1 Pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point** | gerund | | | | | | at the sleeping men | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Sleeping ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:906-pg27200-part117:t13:o4:1 # text = Sleeping 1 Sleeping sleeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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