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title: Wot was nibblin' the gilded wood in that church, dead gross? — Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wot was nibblin' the gilded wood in that church, dead gross? Test 6 · ★ 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; M
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen, The Moon's Tales, part 119: the Moon shows a tem…

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Wot was nibblin' the gilded wood in that church, dead gross?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, gild · **To what, where:** Wot nibblin

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t6:1
# text = Wot was nibblin' the gilded wood in that church, dead gross?
1	Wot	Wot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	nibblin	nibblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gross	gross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Wot nibblin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the worms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t6:o1:1
# text = the worms
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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rats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t6:o2:1
# text = rats
1	rats	rat	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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the rot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t6:o3:1
# text = the rot
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rot	rot	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 little creepy crawlies in the wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:908-pg27200-part119:t6:o4:1
# text = the little creepy crawlies in the wood
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crawlies	crawly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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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