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title: So Fair pushed her in, yeah? And the whale swallowed her, like prope… — Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Fair pushed her in, yeah? And the whale swallowed her, like proper gutted? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 2013 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bullet and the cowboy's message» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bulle…

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So Fair pushed her in, yeah? And the whale swallowed her, like proper gutted?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fair, whale · **What happens:** push, swallow, gut · **To what, where:** her, Fair

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2013 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bullet and the cowboy's message» 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/2013-pg7885-part32/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* So Fair pushed her in, yeah?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2013-pg7885-part32:t2:1
# text = So Fair pushed her in, yeah?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past | Fair | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.

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*Sentence 2:* And the whale swallowed her, like proper gutted?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2013-pg7885-part32:t2:2
# text = And the whale swallowed her, like proper gutted?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | past | the whale | Fair |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 2 | **gut** | participle | the whale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, straight into the whale's belly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2013-pg7885-part32:t2:o1:1
# text = Yeah, straight into the whale's belly
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, straight into the whale's belly and she lived there for a year

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2013-pg7885-part32:t2:o2:1
# text = Yeah, straight into the whale's belly and she lived there for a year
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the whale's belly |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, she went straight down into the whale's belly after the big splash

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2013-pg7885-part32:t2:o3:1
# text = Yeah, she went straight down into the whale's belly after the big splash
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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	splash	splash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | she |  |  | the whale's belly | after the big splash | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into belly=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No way, she washed up ashore quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2013-pg7885-part32:t2:o4:1
# text = No way, she washed up ashore quick
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	quick	quick	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash up** | past | she | no way |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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