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title: what was the pot basically doing, fam? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the pot basically doing, fam? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…

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what was the pot basically doing, fam?

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

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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/997-pg27200-part208/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t2:1
# text = what was the pot basically doing, fam?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	basically	basically	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the pot |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the pot *not said here* | fam |  |  |  | basically *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fam=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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playing the old tune

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t2:o1:1
# text = playing the old tune
1	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  | the old tune |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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sounding every bell in the pot to warn the emperor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t2:o2:1
# text = sounding every bell in the pot to warn the emperor
1	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | gerund |  | every bell |  | the pot |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive |  |  | the emperor |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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playing the jolly old tune for the whole court

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t2:o3:1
# text = playing the jolly old tune for the whole court
1	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	jolly	jolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  | the jolly old tune |  |  |  | for the whole court | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tune=Theme for court=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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spinning round and round

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t2:o4:1
# text = spinning round and round
1	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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