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title: Bruv, what did the fishes say about the palace? — Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the fishes say about the palace? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 13 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…

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Bruv, what did the fishes say about the palace?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fishes · **What happens:** do, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» 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/1802-pg641-part53/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t13:1
# text = Bruv, what did the fishes say about the palace?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the fishes |  |  |  |  | about the palace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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Yonder lies our doom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t13:o1:1
# text = Yonder lies our doom
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | our doom |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doom=Theme |
| 2 | **doom** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yonder lies our destruction, the stepmother has laid a trap inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t13:o2:1
# text = Yonder lies our destruction, the stepmother has laid a trap inside
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | our destruction |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location destruction=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | present · perfect · passive |  | the stepmother |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme trap=Destination |
| 3 | **destroy** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Yonder lies our destruction

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t13:o3:1
# text = Yonder lies our destruction
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | our destruction |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location destruction=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yonder lies our destruction, for the empress waits there to kill us

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t13:o4:1
# text = Yonder lies our destruction, for the empress waits there to kill us
1	Yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present |  | our destruction |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location destruction=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | present | the empress |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive | the empress *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **destroy** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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