--- title: Did she just pay him with her own purse? Massive fail, innit! — Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Did she just pay him with her own purse? Massive fail, innit! Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1901-pg7277-part38/t6/) [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, The Little Soldier, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1901-pg7277-part38/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic… Did she just pay him with her own purse? Massive fail, innit! **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** do, pay · **To what, where:** him This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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/1901-pg7277-part38/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Did she just pay him with her own purse? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t6:1 # text = Did she just pay him with her own purse? 1 Did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pay** | present | she | him *= he* | | | | with her own purse | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset | 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. *Sentence 2:* Massive fail, innit! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t6:2 # text = Massive fail, innit! 1 Massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fail fail NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 innit innit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} yes, she paid with her own purse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t6:o1:1 # text = yes, she paid with her own purse 1 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 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 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | past | she | | | | | with her own purse | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} yes, her own purse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t6:o2:1 # text = yes, her own purse 1 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} no, a gold ring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t6:o3:1 # text = no, a gold ring 1 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} yes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t6:o4:1 # text = yes 1 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 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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