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# Test 1 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a…

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Mate, did the milestone lady really stay out there for three whole days?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** milestone lady · **What happens:** stay out

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1910 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a kind Fairy helps Helena sort the feathers and empty the pond, and her cruel stepmother plans something worse» 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/1910-pg7277-part47/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1910-pg7277-part47:t1:1
# text = Mate, did the milestone lady really stay out there for three whole days?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	milestone	milestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay out** | past · do-support | the milestone lady |  |  | there | day | Mate *vocative* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she stood there for ages, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1910-pg7277-part47:t1:o1:1
# text = Yeah, she stood there for ages, mate
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	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | she |  |  | there | for ages | mate *vocative* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for age=Attribute |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she waited the full three days, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1910-pg7277-part47:t1:o2:1
# text = Yeah, she waited the full three days, innit
1	Yeah	yeah	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	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | she |  |  |  | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she gave up after one day, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1910-pg7277-part47:t1:o3:1
# text = Nah, she gave up after one day, bruv
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	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past | she |  |  |  | day |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, mate, she only waited a single night then went home to her mum's house

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1910-pg7277-part47:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, mate, she only waited a single night then went home to her mum's house
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | she |  |  |  | night |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  | her mum's house | then | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |

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