--- title: Wait, what's the Pope's ban actually saying? — Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and Hi… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, what's the Pope's ban actually saying? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 803 «Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14: the widow's son returns, and Olaf Hase breaks into the church on Christmas night» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/803-pg27200-part14/t4/) [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/) / [Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and Hi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/803-pg27200-part14/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14:… Wait, what's the Pope's ban actually saying? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, ban, Pope · **What happens:** wait, be, say, ban · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 803 «Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14: the widow's son returns, and Olaf Hase breaks into the church on Christmas night» 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/803-pg27200-part14/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:803-pg27200-part14:t4:1 # text = Wait, what's the Pope's ban actually saying? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Pope Pope PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 ban ban NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 actually actually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? 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 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Pope's ban | | | | | actually *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ban** | | the Pope | | | | | | nom ban «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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} Everyone must shun her, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:803-pg27200-part14:t4:o1:1 # text = Everyone must shun her, mate 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 shun shun VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 vocative _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shun** | must | Everyone | her *= she* | | | | mate *vocative* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nobody helps her, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:803-pg27200-part14:t4:o2:1 # text = Nobody helps her, mate 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 vocative _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | Nobody | | her *= she* | | | mate *vocative* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Pope says no help ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:803-pg27200-part14:t4:o3:1 # text = Pope says no help 1 Pope Pope PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Pope | no help | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent help=Topic | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Nobody's allowed to help her, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:803-pg27200-part14:t4:o4:1 # text = Nobody's allowed to help her, mate 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 vocative _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **allow** | present · passive | | Nobody | | | | mate *vocative* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* | | her *= she* | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | **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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