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title: Did the baby have a silly name then? — Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the baby have a silly name then? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 10 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di…

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Did the baby have a silly name then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** silly name

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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/1170-pg3027-part36/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t10:1
# text = Did the baby have a silly name then?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the baby | a silly name |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |

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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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Marguerite, which means pearl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t10:o1:1
# text = Marguerite, which means pearl
1	Marguerite	marguerite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Marguerite | pearl |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Topic |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Desiree, which means desired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t10:o2:1
# text = Desiree, which means desired
1	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Desiree |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **desire** *not said to happen* | participle | Desiree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Desi, a nickname

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t10:o3:1
# text = Desi, a nickname
1	Desi	Desi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Juliette, which means young

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t10:o4:1
# text = Juliette, which means young
1	Juliette	Juliette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Juliette |  |  |  |  | young *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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