--- title: The eel said no with her tail, yeah? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the… · tree and pragmatics description: The eel said no with her tail, yeah? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1813-pg641-part64/t4/) [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/) / [Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1813-pg641-part64/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es… The eel said no with her tail, yeah? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** eel · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** no · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» 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/1813-pg641-part64/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t4:1 # text = The eel said no with her tail, yeah? 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eel | no | | | | with eel's tail | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent no=Theme with tail=Manner | 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} Nah, she shook it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t4:o1:1 # text = Nah, she shook it 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake** | past | she | it | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yeah, she wagged it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t4:o2:1 # text = Yeah, she wagged it 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wagged wag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wag** | past | she | it | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, she didn't ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t4:o3:1 # text = Nah, she didn't 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** | past | she | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, no ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t4:o4:1 # text = Nah, no 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 1 discourse _ _ ``` 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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