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title: Ngl, what did the pipal tree say? — Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the pipal tree say? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1829 «Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives the wicked Raja, and the couple escape to King Dantal's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 7 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives t…

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Ngl, what did the pipal tree say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1829 «Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives the wicked Raja, and the couple escape to King Dantal's palace» 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/1829-pg7128-part13/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1829-pg7128-part13:t7:1
# text = Ngl, what did the pipal tree say?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pipal	pipal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Ngl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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don't whimper, be a man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1829-pg7128-part13:t7:o1:1
# text = don't whimper, be a man
1	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	whimper	whimper	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **whimper** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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be quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1829-pg7128-part13:t7:o2:1
# text = be quiet
1	be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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stop crying, mate, pls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1829-pg7128-part13:t7:o3:1
# text = stop crying, mate, pls
1	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	pls	pls	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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don't whimper, be a man, and go talk to the Brahman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1829-pg7128-part13:t7:o4:1
# text = don't whimper, be a man, and go talk to the Brahman
1	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	whimper	whimper	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **whimper** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Brahman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to brahman=Co-Agent |

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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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