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title: Wot was Pu stirrin' wiv her stick, like, all slow? — Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wot was Pu stirrin' wiv her stick, like, all slow? Test 4 · ★ 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; Mova's choi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

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Wot was Pu stirrin' wiv her stick, like, all slow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wot · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Pu stirrin

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t4:1
# text = Wot was Pu stirrin' wiv her stick, like, all slow?
1	Wot	Wot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	Pu	Pu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stirrin	stirrin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
6	wiv	wiv	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Wot | Pu stirrin |  |  |  |  | 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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the kettle full of the boiling broth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t4:o1:1
# text = the kettle full of the boiling broth
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the silver spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t4:o2:1
# text = the silver spoon
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the gold-fish bowl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t4:o3:1
# text = the gold-fish bowl
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bowl	bowl	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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the iron pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t4:o4:1
# text = the iron pot
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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