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title: Did the lane kids pay for Puggie's grave, or nah? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Fami… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the lane kids pay for Puggie's grave, or nah? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Did the lane kids pay for Puggie's grave, or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lane kids · **What happens:** pay

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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/846-pg27200-part57/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t1:1
# text = Did the lane kids pay for Puggie's grave, or nah?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Puggie	Puggie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | the lane kids |  |  |  |  | for Puggie's grave | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for grave=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they paid a button each and then got a free ride back home

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t1:o1:1
# text = Yeah, they paid a button each and then got a free ride back home
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | they | a button |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent button=Recipient each=Asset |
| 2 | **get** | past | they *not said here* | a free ride |  |  | then | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they paid a button each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t1:o2:1
# text = Yeah, they paid a button each
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | they | a button |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent button=Recipient each=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they paid a penny each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, they paid a penny each
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | they | a penny |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent penny=Recipient each=Asset |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they only paid if the grave looked nice and the eldest boy said so

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, they only paid if the grave looked nice and the eldest boy said so
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the grave |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eldest boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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