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title: ngl, what did Napoleon say a real winner never says? — Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cin… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what did Napoleon say a real winner never says? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

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ngl, what did Napoleon say a real winner never says?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Napoleon, real winner · **What happens:** say, not say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» 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/350-pg18442-part10/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t6:1
# text = ngl, what did Napoleon say a real winner never says?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Napoleon |  |  |  |  | ngl *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present | a real winner |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Impossible

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t6:o1:1
# text = Impossible
1	Impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Surrender

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t6:o2:1
# text = Surrender
1	Surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Retreat when the enemy outnumbers your men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t6:o3:1
# text = Retreat when the enemy outnumbers your men
1	Retreat	retreat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	outnumbers	outnumber	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retreat** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **outnumber** | present | the enemy | your men |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Give up when things look too hard to bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:350-pg18442-part10:t6:o4:1
# text = Give up when things look too hard to bear
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | present | things |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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