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title: Dude, what did the mom's voice sound like? — Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did the mom's voice sound like? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45:…

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Dude, what did the mom's voice sound like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** voice sound

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» 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/1721-pg640-part45/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t8:1
# text = Dude, what did the mom's voice sound like?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	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	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude | voice sound |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality |

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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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Like a huge crowd of loud ravens croaking, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t8:o1:1
# text = Like a huge crowd of loud ravens croaking, bro
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | gerund | loud ravens *not said here* | bro |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bro=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like wild rushing water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t8:o2:1
# text = Like wild rushing water
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like loud ravens croaking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t8:o3:1
# text = Like loud ravens croaking
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | gerund | loud ravens *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Like super loud ravens croaking all at once, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1721-pg640-part45:t8:o4:1
# text = Like super loud ravens croaking all at once, mate
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | gerund | loud ravens and mate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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