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title: What did the turtle hang on himself so he rattled, lol? — Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the turtle hang on himself so he rattled, lol? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1218 «Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the hare brings fire home, the turtle goes to war for his bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 14 · ★ · Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the h…

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What did the turtle hang on himself so he rattled, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** turtle · **What happens:** hang, rattle

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1218 «Indian Folk Tales, The Turtle and His Bride, part 1: the hare brings fire home, the turtle goes to war for his bride» 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/1218-pg3282-part19/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1218-pg3282-part19:t14:1
# text = What did the turtle hang on himself so he rattled, lol?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · do-support | the turtle |  |  |  |  | on turtle | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme on himself=Destination |
| 2 | **rattle** | past | turtle |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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Bracelets and beads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1218-pg3282-part19:t14:o1:1
# text = Bracelets and beads
1	Bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1218-pg3282-part19:t14:o2:1
# text = Shells
1	Shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Fringes and ornaments

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1218-pg3282-part19:t14:o3:1
# text = Fringes and ornaments
1	Fringes	fringe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Feathers and bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1218-pg3282-part19:t14:o4:1
# text = Feathers and bones
1	Feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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