--- title: Mum wouldn't say what was up, right? What did she say? — Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9:… · tree and pragmatics description: Mum wouldn't say what was up, right? What did she say? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» 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/1422-pg503-part9/t7/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1422-pg503-part9/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Be… Mum wouldn't say what was up, right? What did she say? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** not say, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» 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/1422-pg503-part9/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mum wouldn't say what was up, right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t7:1 # text = Mum wouldn't say what was up, right? 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 right right INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | would | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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. *Sentence 2:* What did she say? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t7:2 # text = What did she say? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} she was sad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t7:o1:1 # text = she was sad 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | she | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} sad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t7:o2:1 # text = sad 1 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} she was ill ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t7:o3:1 # text = she was ill 1 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | she | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} ill ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t7:o4:1 # text = ill 1 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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