--- title: Wait, what did the Frog reckon arguments were? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what did the Frog reckon arguments were? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2040-pg902-part10/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/) / [The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2040-pg902-part10/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p… Wait, what did the Frog reckon arguments were? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Frog · **What happens:** wait, do, reckon, be · **To what, where:** arguments This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» 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/2040-pg902-part10/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t9:1 # text = Wait, what did the Frog reckon arguments were? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Frog Frog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 reckon reckon VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 arguments argument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reckon** | present | the Frog | arguments | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent argument=Attribute | | 4 | **be** | past | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} vulgar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t9:o1:1 # text = vulgar 1 vulgar vulgar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} dead vulgar and tiresome, innit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t9:o2:1 # text = dead vulgar and tiresome, innit 1 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 vulgar vulgar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 tiresome tiresome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 innit innit INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} dead vulgar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t9:o3:1 # text = dead vulgar 1 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 vulgar vulgar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} rude ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2040-pg902-part10:t9:o4:1 # text = rude 1 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=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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