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title: Yo, were the sheep really sipping lemonade and sherbet, or nah? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, were the sheep really sipping lemonade and sherbet, or nah? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 1 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yo, were the sheep really sipping lemonade and sherbet, or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sheep · **What happens:** sip · **To what, where:** lemonade

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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/1465-pg503-part52/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t1:1
# text = Yo, were the sheep really sipping lemonade and sherbet, or nah?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sipping	sip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sherbet	sherbet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sip** | past · progressive | the sheep | lemonade and sherbet |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemonade=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just sweets and some pop, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t1:o1:1
# text = Nah, just sweets and some pop, bruv
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, lemonade, sherbet and ices, innit, and they were sipping from golden cups

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t1:o2:1
# text = Yeah, lemonade, sherbet and ices, innit, and they were sipping from golden cups
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sherbet	sherbet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ices	ice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sipping	sip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sip** | past · progressive | ices *= ice* | lemonade *not said here* |  | golden cups |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemonade=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, lemonade, sherbet and ices, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, lemonade, sherbet and ices, innit
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sherbet	sherbet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ices	ice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, not lemonade, it was orange squash and biscuits from a tin, innit, bruv

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, not lemonade, it was orange squash and biscuits from a tin, innit, bruv
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	lemonade	lemonade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	squash	squash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | orange squash and biscuits from a tin and innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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