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title: Why did she say no to the reward thingy, was she full up? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did she say no to the reward thingy, was she full up? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Empe…

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Why did she say no to the reward thingy, was she full up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** no, reward thingy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1743 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 67: the Emperor hears of the bird, and the little kitchenmaid leads the Court to her in the wood» 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/1743-pg640-part67/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t8:1
# text = Why did she say no to the reward thingy, was she full up?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
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	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	thingy	thingy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | she | no | the reward thingy |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to thingy=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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tears in his eyes were enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t8:o1:1
# text = tears in his eyes were enough
1	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | tears in his eyes |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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she wanted to go back to the wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t8:o2:1
# text = she wanted to go back to the wood
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the wood *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no thanks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t8:o3:1
# text = no thanks
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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she was full

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1743-pg640-part67:t8:o4:1
# text = she was full
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	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | she |  |  |  |  | full *property* | 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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