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title: wait, the fish was yelling about war but it sounded like gibberish,… — Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven,… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, the fish was yelling about war but it sounded like gibberish, right? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1275 «Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin finds his eyes again, then seven friends set out to make war and the first warriors drop away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, wi
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# Test 7 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin fin…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wait, the fish was yelling about war but it sounded like gibberish, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, fish · **What happens:** wait, yell, sound

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1275 «Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin finds his eyes again, then seven friends set out to make war and the first warriors drop away» 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/1275-pg338-part12/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1275-pg338-part12:t7:1
# text = wait, the fish was yelling about war but it sounded like gibberish, right?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gibberish	gibberish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the fish |  |  |  |  | about war | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about war=Topic |
| 3 | **sound** | past | fish |  |  |  |  | like gibberish | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, it said "shu hi pi" over and over loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1275-pg338-part12:t7:o1:1
# text = yes, it said "shu hi pi" over and over loudly
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	shu	shu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	hi	hi	ADJ	JJ	_	8	amod	_	_
8	pi	pi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
13	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | it |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, it said "shu hi pi"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1275-pg338-part12:t7:o2:1
# text = yes, it said "shu hi pi"
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	shu	shu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	hi	hi	ADJ	JJ	_	8	amod	_	_
8	pi	pi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no, it was clearly saying "we come to make war"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1275-pg338-part12:t7:o3:1
# text = no, it was clearly saying "we come to make war"
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | it |  |  |  |  | clearly, say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | war |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yes, it said "hsss tchu"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1275-pg338-part12:t7:o4:1
# text = yes, it said "hsss tchu"
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	hsss	hsss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	tchu	tchu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | it | hsss |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hsss=Topic |

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