--- title: Yo, so what did that drop of water write on the sand, innit? — Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnom… · tree and pragmatics description: Yo, so what did that drop of water write on the sand, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1699-pg640-part23/t1/) [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 Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnom…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1699-pg640-part23/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's… Yo, so what did that drop of water write on the sand, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** drop · **What happens:** do, write, innit · **To what, where:** sand This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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/1699-pg640-part23/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t1:1 # text = Yo, so what did that drop of water write on the sand, innit? 1 Yo yo INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 write write VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 innit innit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **write** | present | that drop of water | | | the sand | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sand=Destination | | 3 | **innit** | infinitive | that drop of water *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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} The Prince whose name was Flame ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t1:o1:1 # text = The Prince whose name was Flame 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 Flame Flame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Flame's Prince name | Flame | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **name** | | Flame | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Gnome ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t1:o2:1 # text = Gnome 1 Gnome gnome NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Flame ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t1:o3:1 # text = Flame 1 Flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Prince Flame ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1699-pg640-part23:t1:o4:1 # text = Prince Flame 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Flame Flame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 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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