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title: Yo, what was the ogress yelling to her kids? — Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what was the ogress yelling to her kids? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 166 «Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, part 6: the king doubts the vizir, then condemns the physician to death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…

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Yo, what was the ogress yelling to her kids?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ogress · **What happens:** be, yell · **To what, where:** ogress, kids

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 166 «Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, part 6: the king doubts the vizir, then condemns the physician to death» 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/166-pg128-part6/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t7:1
# text = Yo, what was the ogress yelling to her kids?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the ogress |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | the ogress *not said here* |  | her kids |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kid=Recipient |

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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 fine young lad for supper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t7:o1:1
# text = a fine young lad for supper
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a nice fat youth to munch on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t7:o2:1
# text = a nice fat youth to munch on
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	munch	munch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **munch on** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a nice fat youth to munch on before the moon rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t7:o3:1
# text = a nice fat youth to munch on before the moon rose
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	munch	munch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **munch on** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before the moon rose |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the young prince, a nice fat youth to munch on tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:166-pg128-part6:t7:o4:1
# text = the young prince, a nice fat youth to munch on tonight
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	munch	munch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **munch** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | tonight |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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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