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title: Innit proper funny, what did the codfish thing say? — Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Innit proper funny, what did the codfish thing say? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 325 «Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to his boat, and Peter tricks the pirates with a codfish game» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to hi…

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Innit proper funny, what did the codfish thing say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, codfish thing · **What happens:** innit, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 325 «Peter Pan, The Mermaid's Lagoon, part 16: Hook swims to his boat, and Peter tricks the pirates with a codfish game» 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/325-pg16-part16/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t4:1
# text = Innit proper funny, what did the codfish thing say?
1	Innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	codfish	codfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **innit** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the codfish thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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}

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"Only a codfish, really."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t4:o1:1
# text = "Only a codfish, really."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	codfish	codfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"A codfish."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t4:o2:1
# text = "A codfish."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	codfish	codfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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"Only a fish."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t4:o3:1
# text = "Only a fish."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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"A codfish, only a codfish."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:325-pg16-part16:t4:o4:1
# text = "A codfish, only a codfish."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	codfish	codfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	codfish	codfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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