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title: Blud, what did the wife say when she saw the fish? — Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blud, what did the wife say when she saw the fish? Test 11 · ★ 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 dependency tree and 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

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Blud, what did the wife say when she saw the fish?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Blud, wife · **What happens:** do, say, see · **To what, where:** fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t11:1
# text = Blud, what did the wife say when she saw the fish?
1	Blud	Blud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Blud |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | past | wife | the fish |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |

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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}

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Who put the pike up there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t11:o1:1
# text = Who put the pike up there?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past |  |  | the pike | there |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pike=Goal |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Who did that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t11:o2:1
# text = Who did that?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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How did a fish get up?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t11:o3:1
# text = How did a fish get up?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past · do-support | a fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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How did a pike get up there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t11:o4:1
# text = How did a pike get up there?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get up** | present | a pike |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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