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title: Wot were the little kids doin' at the very end, all in a line? — Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wot were the little kids doin' at the very end, all in a line? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

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Wot were the little kids doin' at the very end, all in a line?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wot · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** kids doin, end

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 908 «Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a temple, a swan and a dancing bear» 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/908-pg27200-part119/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t10:1
# text = Wot were the little kids doin' at the very end, all in a line?
1	Wot	Wot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	doin	doin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Wot | the kids doin |  |  | at the end |  | tree rules |

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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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shoutin' and jumpin' about outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t10:o1:1
# text = shoutin' and jumpin' about outside
1	shoutin	shoutin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	jumpin	jumpin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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dancin'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t10:o2:1
# text = dancin'
1	dancin	dancin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t10:o3:1
# text = sing
1	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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marchin'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t10:o4:1
# text = marchin'
1	marchin	marchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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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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