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title: lol, what did the old toad mom sound like? — Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol, what did the old toad mom sound like? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1273 «Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stolen boy is found by his parents, and a wood-child is adopted by a chieftain» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 14 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…

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lol, what did the old toad mom sound like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old toad mom · **What happens:** sound

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1273 «Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stolen boy is found by his parents, and a wood-child is adopted by a chieftain» 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/1273-pg338-part10/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t14:1
# text = lol, what did the old toad mom sound like?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past · do-support | the old toad mom |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A high, thin cry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t14:o1:1
# text = A high, thin cry
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A gruff, coarse voice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t14:o2:1
# text = A gruff, coarse voice
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	gruff	gruff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sweet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t14:o3:1
# text = Sweet
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Soft

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1273-pg338-part10:t14:o4:1
# text = Soft
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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