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title: not gonna lie, what did the storks say about her picture on the wall? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: He… · tree and pragmatics
description: not gonna lie, what did the storks say about her picture on the wall? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven f…

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not gonna lie, what did the storks say about her picture on the wall?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, storks · **What happens:** not lie, do, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 897 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga goes to heaven for three minutes and returns to find a night gone» 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/897-pg27200-part108/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t10:1
# text = not gonna lie, what did the storks say about her picture on the wall?
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lie** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the storks |  |  |  |  | about her picture on the wall | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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very grand and proud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t10:o1:1
# text = very grand and proud
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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very pretty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t10:o2:1
# text = very pretty
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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"very sensible and pretty"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t10:o3:1
# text = "very sensible and pretty"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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quite plain and sad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:897-pg27200-part108:t10:o4:1
# text = quite plain and sad
1	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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