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title: deadass, what did the old maid call her last trip? — Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moo… · tree and pragmatics
description: deadass, what did the old maid call her last trip? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 12 · ★ · Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114:…

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deadass, what did the old maid call her last trip?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old maid, maid · **What happens:** call, trip · **To what, where:** last trip · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» 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/903-pg27200-part114/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t12:1
# text = deadass, what did the old maid call her last trip?
1	deadass	deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | the old maid | maid's last trip |  |  |  | deadass *vocative* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme trip=Result |
| 2 | **trip** |  | maid |  |  |  |  |  | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=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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The final walk home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t12:o1:1
# text = The final walk home
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Her trip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t12:o2:1
# text = Her trip
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trip** |  | Her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The short ride to town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t12:o3:1
# text = The short ride to town
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The long journey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:903-pg27200-part114:t12:o4:1
# text = The long journey
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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