--- title: Who was weeping and yanking at his beard, then? — Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58:… · tree and pragmatics description: Who was weeping and yanking at his beard, then? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1257-pg3282-part58/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1257-pg3282-part58/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o… Who was weeping and yanking at his beard, then? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** weep, yank This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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/1257-pg3282-part58/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t13:1 # text = Who was weeping and yanking at his beard, then? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 weeping weep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 yanking yank VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 conj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weep** | past · progressive | | | | | then | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **yank** | gerund | | | | | | at his beard | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at beard=Theme | 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} Wali Dâd ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t13:o1:1 # text = Wali Dâd 1 Wali Wali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Dâd Dâd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the merchant ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t13:o2:1 # text = the merchant 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Wali Dâd, bawling his eyes out ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t13:o3:1 # text = Wali Dâd, bawling his eyes out 1 Wali Wali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Dâd Dâd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 bawling bawl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 out out ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bawl out** *speech: other* | gerund | | Wali's eyes | | | | out *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} the king, shaking his head sadly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1257-pg3282-part58:t13:o4:1 # text = the king, shaking his head sadly 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 shaking shake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake** | gerund | the king *not said here* | king's head | | | | sadly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | **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. 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