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title: Lol, what did the hermit say right before he vanished? — Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the hermit say right before he vanished? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 12 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

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Lol, what did the hermit say right before he vanished?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hermit · **What happens:** do, say, vanish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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/1644-pg5615-part33/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t12:1
# text = Lol, what did the hermit say right before he vanished?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the hermit |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **vanish** | past | hermit |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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farewell, young man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t12:o1:1
# text = farewell, young man
1	farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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I must leave now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t12:o2:1
# text = I must leave now
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | must | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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call on me and I will come

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t12:o3:1
# text = call on me and I will come
1	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on me | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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keep the knife safe always

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t12:o4:1
# text = keep the knife safe always
1	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | the knife |  |  |  | always, safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |

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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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