--- title: bet, which fish said people change scales two or three times a day? — A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: t… · tree and pragmatics description: bet, which fish said people change scales two or three times a day? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/818-pg27200-part29/t7/) [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/) / [A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/818-pg27200-part29/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol… bet, which fish said people change scales two or three times a day? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bet, people · **What happens:** say, change · **To what, where:** scales · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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/818-pg27200-part29/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t7:1 # text = bet, which fish said people change scales two or three times a day? 1 bet bet NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 4 det _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 conj _ _ 12 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bet and which fish | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **change** | present | people | scales two times a day | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Patient | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} the whiting ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t7:o1:1 # text = the whiting 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 whiting whiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} carp ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t7:o2:1 # text = carp 1 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the perch ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t7:o3:1 # text = the perch 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 perch perch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:818-pg27200-part29:t7:o4:1 # text = fish 1 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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