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title: Lol, what did the little girl reckon the dogs would think? — Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcine… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the little girl reckon the dogs would think? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

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Lol, what did the little girl reckon the dogs would think?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** little girl, dogs · **What happens:** reckon, think

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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/905-pg27200-part116/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t5:1
# text = Lol, what did the little girl reckon the dogs would think?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	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	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the little girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | would | the dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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what the dogs would say about her new dress and bonnet and boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t5:o1:1
# text = what the dogs would say about her new dress and bonnet and boots
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | the dogs |  |  |  |  | about her new dress and bonnet and boots | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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

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what she looked like in her new things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t5:o2:1
# text = what she looked like in her new things
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | she |  |  |  |  | like her new things | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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whether the whole village would notice her shiny new things today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t5:o3:1
# text = whether the whole village would notice her shiny new things today
1	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | would | the whole village | village's shiny new things |  |  | today |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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whether her new hat suited her face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:905-pg27200-part116:t5:o4:1
# text = whether her new hat suited her face
1	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	suited	suit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suit** | past | her new hat | her face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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