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title: Did Drakestail sing the whole time, or what? — Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Drakestail sing the whole time, or what? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his frien…

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Did Drakestail sing the whole time, or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Drakestail · **What happens:** sing

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» 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/1551-pg540-part48/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:t9:1
# text = Did Drakestail sing the whole time, or what?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · do-support | Drakestail |  |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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Yeah, he kept on quacking quack quack the whole way to the palace, non stop

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:t9:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he kept on quacking quack quack the whole way to the palace, non stop
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	quacking	quack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	quack	quack	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	non	non	ADV	AFX	_	4	parataxis	_	_
17	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	goeswith	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **quack** | gerund | he *not said here* | quack quack |  |  |  | to the palace; the whole way *obl:unmarked* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent quack=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he sang on and on, non stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:t9:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he sang on and on, non stop
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	non	non	ADV	AFX	_	4	conj	_	_
10	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	goeswith	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, quack quack quack, non stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:t9:o3:1
# text = Yeah, quack quack quack, non stop
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	quack	quack	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	non	non	ADV	AFX	_	8	compound	_	_
8	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, quack quack quack all the way down the road and into the King's hall, non stop

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1551-pg540-part48:t9:o4:1
# text = Yeah, quack quack quack all the way down the road and into the King's hall, non stop
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	quack	quack	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	quack	quack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	non	non	ADV	AFX	_	20	compound	_	_
20	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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