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title: Yo, why'd the sultan's missus send her slaves on donkeys, innit? — Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, why'd the sultan's missus send her slaves on donkeys, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Test 1 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

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Yo, why'd the sultan's missus send her slaves on donkeys, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** missus · **What happens:** send, innit · **To what, where:** slaves

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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/1775-pg641-part26/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t1:1
# text = Yo, why'd the sultan's missus send her slaves on donkeys, innit?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	missus	missus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | infinitive | the sultan's missus | missus's slaves |  |  |  | on donkeys | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the sultan's missus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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To tell her dad about the gazelle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t1:o1:1
# text = To tell her dad about the gazelle
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | her dad |  |  | about the gazelle | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient about gazelle=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To tell her father about deer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t1:o2:1
# text = To tell her father about deer
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | her father |  |  | about deer | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent father=Recipient about deer=Topic |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To give her dad a bit of news about that gazelle thing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t1:o3:1
# text = To give her dad a bit of news about that gazelle thing
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | a bit of news | her dad |  |  | about that gazelle thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient bit=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To tell her dad all about that gazelle dying and the crowd crying in the street

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t1:o4:1
# text = To tell her dad all about that gazelle dying and the crowd crying in the street
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | her dad |  |  | about that gazelle; all *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient about gazelle=Topic |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | that gazelle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the crowd *not said here* |  |  | the street |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location |

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