--- title: so the King was a dog too, yeah? — Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26:… · tree and pragmatics description: so the King was a dog too, yeah? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1889-pg7277-part26/t9/) [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 Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1889-pg7277-part26/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki… so the King was a dog too, yeah? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** dog This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» 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/1889-pg7277-part26/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t9:1 # text = so the King was a dog too, yeah? 1 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 too too ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the King | a dog | | | | | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} yeah, King Bayard, a spaniel, proper tragic ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t9:o1:1 # text = yeah, King Bayard, a spaniel, proper tragic 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 Bayard Bayard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 spaniel spaniel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tragic tragic NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} nah, King Bayard, a cat, tragic ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t9:o2:1 # text = nah, King Bayard, a cat, tragic 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 Bayard Bayard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 tragic tragic NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} yeah, King Bayard, a spaniel, sad ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t9:o3:1 # text = yeah, King Bayard, a spaniel, sad 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 Bayard Bayard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 spaniel spaniel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} yeah, obviously ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1889-pg7277-part26:t9:o4:1 # text = yeah, obviously 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 obviously obviously ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` 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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