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title: Lol, what was Lambikin's rhyme, like the thing he kept shouting? — Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what was Lambikin's rhyme, like the thing he kept shouting? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1821 «Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked into a drum and eaten, then the Raja's daughters are starved by a cruel stepmother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked int…

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Lol, what was Lambikin's rhyme, like the thing he kept shouting?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lambikin, thing · **What happens:** be, keep, shout · **To what, where:** rhyme, thing

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1821 «Indian Fairy Tales, Balna, part 5: Lambikin is tricked into a drum and eaten, then the Raja's daughters are starved by a cruel stepmother» 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/1821-pg7128-part5/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t2:1
# text = Lol, what was Lambikin's rhyme, like the thing he kept shouting?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Lambikin's rhyme |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Lambikin | the thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the thing *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 {#o1}

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I'm off to Granny's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t2:o1:1
# text = I'm off to Granny's
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  | Granny |  |  | off *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To grandma's farm I go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t2:o2:1
# text = To grandma's farm I go
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | I |  |  | grandma's farm |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial\_Location |

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

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"To Granny's house I go"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t2:o3:1
# text = "To Granny's house I go"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  | Granny's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
I'm off to my granny's house far away, tum-pa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1821-pg7128-part5:t2:o4:1
# text = I'm off to my granny's house far away, tum-pa
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	off	off	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	granny	granny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	tum	tum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | to my granny's house and tum pa; away, off *property* | tree rules |

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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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