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title: Her hair rang like metal when it fell, that's sus, right? — pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her hair rang like metal when it fell, that's sus, right? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1708 «pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 4 · ★ · pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills…

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Her hair rang like metal when it fell, that's sus, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hair, that · **What happens:** ring, fall, be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1708 «pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride» 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/1708-pg640-part32/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t4:1
# text = Her hair rang like metal when it fell, that's sus, right?
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past | Her hair |  |  |  |  | like metal | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | hair |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | suspect *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, every hair went clink like pure metal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t4:o1:1
# text = Yeah, every hair went clink like pure metal
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	clink	clink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | every hair | clink |  |  |  | like pure metal | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clink=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yeah, every single hair went clink like pure metal when it hit the floor

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t4:o2:1
# text = Yeah, every single hair went clink like pure metal when it hit the floor
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	clink	clink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | every single hair | clink |  |  |  | like pure metal | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clink=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | past | hair | the floor |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it chimed like a bell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it chimed like a bell
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chimed	chime	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chime** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like a bell | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, it sounded like soft silk brushing the stone, nothing weird at all

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1708-pg640-part32:t4:o4:1
# text = Nah, it sounded like soft silk brushing the stone, nothing weird at all
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	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	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	conj	_	_
13	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like soft silk | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **brush** | gerund | soft silk *not said here* | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

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