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title: Mate, what did the crowd reckon about the gazelle dying? — Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the crowd reckon about the gazelle dying? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Test 4 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

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Mate, what did the crowd reckon about the gazelle dying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crowd · **What happens:** reckon, die · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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/1775-pg641-part26/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t4:1
# text = Mate, what did the crowd reckon about the gazelle dying?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the crowd | Mate |  |  |  | about the gazelle | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | the crowd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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They wailed like kin had died

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t4:o1:1
# text = They wailed like kin had died
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wailed	wail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wail** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | past · perfect | kin |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They cried loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t4:o2:1
# text = They cried loud
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | They |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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They wept like it was their own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t4:o3:1
# text = They wept like it was their own
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | own *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They cried as for kin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1775-pg641-part26:t4:o4:1
# text = They cried as for kin
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | They |  |  |  |  | as kin | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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