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title: Fam, what did the tiger say he was dying of, no cap? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fam, what did the tiger say he was dying of, no cap? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…

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Fam, what did the tiger say he was dying of, no cap?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fam · **What happens:** do, say, die · **To what, where:** tiger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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/1830-pg7128-part14/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t2:1
# text = Fam, what did the tiger say he was dying of, no cap?
1	Fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Fam | the tiger |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Fam |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **die** | past · progressive | Fam |  |  |  |  |  | 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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An old wound that never healed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t2:o1:1
# text = An old wound that never healed
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	healed	heal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **heal** | past | a old wound |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Hunger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t2:o2:1
# text = Hunger
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Being starved for days in a dark pit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t2:o3:1
# text = Being starved for days in a dark pit
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | a dark pit | day |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1830-pg7128-part14:t2:o4:1
# text = Fear
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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