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title: who did Julia think was singing, the Yara or some random? — Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a… · tree and pragmatics
description: who did Julia think was singing, the Yara or some random? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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 was wr
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# Test 4 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

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who did Julia think was singing, the Yara or some random?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** think, sing · **To what, where:** Yara

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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/1216-pg3282-part17/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t4:1
# text = who did Julia think was singing, the Yara or some random?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Julia	Julia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Yara	Yara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support |  | the Yara |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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a lost traveller singing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t4:o1:1
# text = a lost traveller singing
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Yara, the water spirit that lives in the dark forest pools and sings to lure travellers in

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t4:o2:1
# text = the Yara, the water spirit that lives in the dark forest pools and sings to lure travellers in
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Yara	Yara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	lure	lure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the water spirit |  |  | the dark forest pools |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the water spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lure** | to-infinitive | the water spirit *not said here* | travellers |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Yara, the water spirit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t4:o3:1
# text = the Yara, the water spirit
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Yara	Yara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
some village boy singing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1216-pg3282-part17:t4:o4:1
# text = some village boy singing
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | some village boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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