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title: Lowkey, what did the King say the Skipjack actually had? — Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what did the King say the Skipjack actually had? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: t…

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Lowkey, what did the King say the Skipjack actually had?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lowkey, King, Skipjack · **What happens:** do, say, have · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 866 «Andersen's Tales, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, part 1: the jumping contest ends, and the old oak gets ready for winter sleep» 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/866-pg27200-part77/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t4:1
# text = Lowkey, what did the King say the Skipjack actually had?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Skipjack	Skipjack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Lowkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Skipjack |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 {#o1}

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a good tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t4:o1:1
# text = a good tail
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a loud voice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t4:o2:1
# text = a loud voice
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	voice	voice	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t4:o3:1
# text = a head
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a head and a bit more luck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:866-pg27200-part77:t4:o4:1
# text = a head and a bit more luck
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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