--- title: Oi, so them fish could actually chat and whistle, innit? — Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Oi, so them fish could actually chat and whistle, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1883 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell well, Celandine comes to the valley, Featherhead ignores her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1883-pg7277-part20/t1/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1883-pg7277-part20/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell we… Oi, so them fish could actually chat and whistle, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oi · **What happens:** chat, whistle, innit This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1883 «Fairy Tales, Prince Featherhead, part 20: the fish sell well, Celandine comes to the valley, Featherhead ignores her» 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/1883-pg7277-part20/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1883-pg7277-part20:t1:1 # text = Oi, so them fish could actually chat and whistle, innit? 1 Oi oi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 6 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 actually actually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 chat chat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 whistle whistle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 innit innit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chat** *speech: other* | could | Oi | | | | | actually *property* | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **whistle** | infinitive | Oi *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **innit** | infinitive | Oi *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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} Nah, not really ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1883-pg7277-part20:t1:o1:1 # text = Nah, not really 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, they couldn't ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1883-pg7277-part20:t1:o2:1 # text = Nah, they couldn't 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yeah, they could talk and whistle ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1883-pg7277-part20:t1:o3:1 # text = Yeah, they could talk and whistle 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 whistle whistle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | could | they | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **whistle** | present | they *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, they could sing and dance ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1883-pg7277-part20:t1:o4:1 # text = Yeah, they could sing and dance 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | could | they | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **dance** | infinitive | they *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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