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title: Ok real talk, what did the old man say about her whole life? — Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlig… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok real talk, what did the old man say about her whole life? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1359 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight: the Princess is taken back to the moon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight: the Princess is…

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Ok real talk, what did the old man say about her whole life?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, say · **To what, where:** old man, Ok real talk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1359 «Japanese Fairy Tales, Princess Moonlight: the Princess is taken back to the moon» 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/1359-pg4018-part19/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1359-pg4018-part19:t11:1
# text = Ok real talk, what did the old man say about her whole life?
1	Ok	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Ok real talk |  |  |  | about her whole life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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She was never once bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1359-pg4018-part19:t11:o1:1
# text = She was never once bad
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | She |  |  |  |  | bad, once *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She never once did a wrong thing in her whole life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1359-pg4018-part19:t11:o2:1
# text = She never once did a wrong thing in her whole life
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | She | a wrong thing |  | her whole life |  | once *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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

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She never once did wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1359-pg4018-part19:t11:o3:1
# text = She never once did wrong
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | She |  |  |  |  | once, wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She was the most beautiful woman anyone ever saw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1359-pg4018-part19:t11:o4:1
# text = She was the most beautiful woman anyone ever saw
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | She | anyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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