--- title: lol so her older sisters just ate the fish?? — Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fou… · tree and pragmatics description: lol so her older sisters just ate the fish?? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1312 «Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds a fish, he is eaten, and his bones grow into a magic tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1312-pg3454-part37/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fou…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1312-pg3454-part37/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds… lol so her older sisters just ate the fish?? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** older sisters · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** fish This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1312 «Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds a fish, he is eaten, and his bones grow into a magic tree» 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/1312-pg3454-part37/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1312-pg3454-part37:t2:1 # text = lol so her older sisters just ate the fish?? 1 lol lol INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 2 so so SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ?? ?? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | her older sisters | the fish | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | 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} yeah, they boiled him for supper ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1312-pg3454-part37:t2:o1:1 # text = yeah, they boiled him for supper 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 boiled boil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boil** | past | they | him *= he* | | | | for supper | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient for supper=Beneficiary | ### Option 2 {#o2} yeah, they boiled him for supper and hid the bones ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1312-pg3454-part37:t2:o2:1 # text = yeah, they boiled him for supper and hid the bones 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 boiled boil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boil** | past | they | him *= he* | | | | for supper | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient for supper=Beneficiary | | 2 | **hide** | past | they *not said here* | the bones | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} nah, they gave him to the cat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1312-pg3454-part37:t2:o3:1 # text = nah, they gave him to the cat 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | they | | him *= he* | | | to the cat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cat=Recipient | ### Option 4 {#o4} yeah, they cut him up and boiled him for supper ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1312-pg3454-part37:t2:o4:1 # text = yeah, they cut him up and boiled him for supper 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 boiled boil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut up** | present | they | him *= he* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | | 2 | **boil** | past | they *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | for supper | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient for supper=Beneficiary | **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. 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