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title: Slay, what kind of power did the fish have? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slay, what kind of power did the fish have? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1175 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: the prince wins back Desiree, and the idle girl turns into a fish under the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 13 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: th…

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Slay, what kind of power did the fish have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, fish · **What happens:** slay, have · **To what, where:** kind

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1175 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: the prince wins back Desiree, and the idle girl turns into a fish under the sea» 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/1175-pg3027-part41/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t13:1
# text = Slay, what kind of power did the fish have?
1	Slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** | imperative | you *not said here* | what kind of power |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past · do-support | the fish | what kind of power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=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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Hex

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t13:o1:1
# text = Hex
1	Hex	hex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t13:o2:1
# text = Fire
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t13:o3:1
# text = Magic
1	Magic	magic	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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Voice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1175-pg3027-part41:t13:o4:1
# text = Voice
1	Voice	voice	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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