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title: Lol, what did the voice from the rock tell him to do? — Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what did the voice from the rock tell him to do? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the de
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# Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shel…

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Lol, what did the voice from the rock tell him to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, tell · **To what, where:** voice, him, rock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» 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/1926-pg7277-part63/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t10:1
# text = Lol, what did the voice from the rock tell him to do?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	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	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the voice |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  |  | him *= he* | the rock |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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 {#o1}

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enter now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t10:o1:1
# text = enter now
1	enter	enter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
stay outside and rest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t10:o2:1
# text = stay outside and rest
1	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rest** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
step in without fear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t10:o3:1
# text = step in without fear
1	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
go inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1926-pg7277-part63:t10:o4:1
# text = go inside
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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