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title: What sound did the echo make, sounding like? — Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wol… · tree and pragmatics
description: What sound did the echo make, sounding like? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

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What sound did the echo make, sounding like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sound · **What happens:** make, sound

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» 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/1288-pg3454-part13/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t13:1
# text = What sound did the echo make, sounding like?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · do-support | what sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **sound** | gerund | what sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 large wolf pack howling together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t13:o1:1
# text = A large wolf pack howling together
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** | gerund | a large wolf pack *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A wolf's howl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t13:o2:1
# text = A wolf's howl
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** |  | a wolf |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A dog's bark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t13:o3:1
# text = A dog's bark
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A crow's caw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1288-pg3454-part13:t13:o4:1
# text = A crow's caw
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	caw	caw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **caw** |  | a crow |  |  |  |  |  | nom caw «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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