---
title: and the gully frog just said no, mad stubborn? — Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: and the gully frog just said no, mad stubborn? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/397-pg21-part18/t6/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/397-pg21-part18/) / t6

# Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
and the gully frog just said no, mad stubborn?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gully frog · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» 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/397-pg21-part18/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:t6:1
# text = and the gully frog just said no, mad stubborn?
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	gully	gully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stubborn	stubborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the gully frog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, it's really hard to leave the place you know so well, even if the pond is nicer

<!-- fold The tree, 19 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:t6:o1:1
# text = yeah, it's really hard to leave the place you know so well, even if the pond is nicer
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | the place |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present | you | the place *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the pond |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, leaving's a pain for you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:t6:o2:1
# text = yeah, leaving's a pain for you
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | leaving | a pain |  |  |  | for you | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, I'm staying here in this gully and I'm not moving anywhere near the pond, no matter what you say

<!-- fold The tree, 22 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:t6:o3:1
# text = nah, I'm staying here in this gully and I'm not moving anywhere near the pond, no matter what you say
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	gully	gully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
16	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present · progressive | I | no matter |  | this gully; here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gully=Location |
| 2 | **not** **move** | present · progressive | I |  |  | the pond |  | anywhere *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near pond=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | no matter |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, it's hard to leave your spot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:t6:o4:1
# text = yeah, it's hard to leave your spot
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | your spot |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a…, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/397-pg21-part18/t5/)
- next →: [Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a…, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/397-pg21-part18/t7/)
- ↑ back to [Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/397-pg21-part18/)