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title: Oi, what did John say first, yeah? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what did John say first, yeah? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220…

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Oi, what did John say first, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** John · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1009 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 220: John guesses "shoe" and wins the first riddle» 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/1009-pg27200-part220/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t1:1
# text = Oi, what did John say first, yeah?
1	Oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | John |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t1:o1:1
# text = hat
1	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t1:o2:1
# text = shoe
1	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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glove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t1:o3:1
# text = glove
1	glove	glove	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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key

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1009-pg27200-part220:t1:o4:1
# text = key
1	key	key	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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