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title: What were the kids yelling, like? — Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: What were the kids yelling, like? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1771 «Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from a hundred children» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What were the kids yelling, like?

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

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1771 «Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from a hundred children» 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/1771-pg641-part22/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1771-pg641-part22:t7:1
# text = What were the kids yelling, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Give us dragon's flesh, we want dragon's flesh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1771-pg641-part22:t7:o1:1
# text = Give us dragon's flesh, we want dragon's flesh
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | dragon's flesh | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient flesh=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | present | we | dragon's flesh |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flesh=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Give us dragon's bread, we want dragon's cake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1771-pg641-part22:t7:o2:1
# text = Give us dragon's bread, we want dragon's cake
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | dragon's bread | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient bread=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | present | we | dragon's cake |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cake=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Give us dragon's flesh, we want dragon's flesh and we want it cooked

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1771-pg641-part22:t7:o3:1
# text = Give us dragon's flesh, we want dragon's flesh and we want it cooked
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | dragon's flesh | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient flesh=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | present | we | dragon's flesh |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flesh=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | present | we | flesh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cook** *not said to happen* | participle | flesh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Food, food, food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1771-pg641-part22:t7:o4:1
# text = Food, food, food
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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