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title: no way, the swan girls said a hunter shot their sister, right? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: no way, the swan girls said a hunter shot their sister, right? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no way, the swan girls said a hunter shot their sister, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** swan girls, hunter · **What happens:** say, shoot · **To what, where:** way, sister · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» 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/890-pg27200-part101/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t2:1
# text = no way, the swan girls said a hunter shot their sister, right?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the swan girls | no way |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | a hunter |  | girls's sister |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yep, with an arrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t2:o1:1
# text = yep, with an arrow
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yep, with a poisoned arrow and then she sank in the lake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t2:o2:1
# text = yep, with a poisoned arrow and then she sank in the lake
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sink** | past | she |  |  | the lake | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yep, with a spear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t2:o3:1
# text = yep, with a spear
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yep, a hunter shot her with an arrow from the reeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:890-pg27200-part101:t2:o4:1
# text = yep, a hunter shot her with an arrow from the reeds
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past | a hunter | her *= she* |  | the reeds |  | with a arrow | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from reed=Initial\_Location |

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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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