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title: ayy, what did the moon look like? — Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo… · tree and pragmatics
description: ayy, what did the moon look like? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» 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 w
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# Test 8 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

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ayy, what did the moon look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** look · **To what, where:** ayy

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» 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/1272-pg338-part9/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t8:1
# text = ayy, what did the moon look like?
1	ayy	ayy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the moon | ayy |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 bright round silver plate hanging low over the river bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t8:o1:1
# text = a bright round silver plate hanging low over the river bottom
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | gerund | a bright round silver plate *not said here* |  |  | the river bottom |  | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over bottom=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a thin golden hoop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t8:o2:1
# text = a thin golden hoop
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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a pale silver ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t8:o3:1
# text = a pale silver ring
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a skinny silver thread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1272-pg338-part9:t8:o4:1
# text = a skinny silver thread
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	skinny	skinny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	thread	thread	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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**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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