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title: «panicing looks fine to me». How would «panicing» sound if you read… — Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and drop… · tree and pragmatics
description: «panicing looks fine to me». How would «panicing» sound if you read it with the rules? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e

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«panicing looks fine to me». How would «panicing» sound if you read it with the rules?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** panicing, you · **What happens:** look, read · **To what, where:** sound

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» of the English 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/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «panicing looks fine to me».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t8:1
# text = «panicing looks fine to me».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	panicing	panicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present | panicing |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How would «panicing» sound if you read it with the rules?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t8:2
# text = How would «panicing» sound if you read it with the rules?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	panicing	panicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | you | sound |  |  |  | with the rules | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Like «pan-i-king» with a hard k

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t8:o1:1
# text = Like «pan-i-king» with a hard k
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Like «pan-i-sing», with a soft c

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t8:o2:1
# text = Like «pan-i-sing», with a soft c
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Like «pain-sing», with a long a

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t8:o3:1
# text = Like «pain-sing», with a long a
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exactly like «panicking»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t8:o4:1
# text = Exactly like «panicking»
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	panicking	panic	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **panic** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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