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title: Real talk, what did Telephassa keep hearing? — Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what did Telephassa keep hearing? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…

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Real talk, what did Telephassa keep hearing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Telephassa · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** Real talk

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» 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/2057-pg976-part16/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t7:1
# text = Real talk, what did Telephassa keep hearing?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | Telephassa | Real talk |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme hearing=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 {#o1}

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Her daughter yelling "Mother!" in the dark while she lay awake each night

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t7:o1:1
# text = Her daughter yelling "Mother!" in the dark while she lay awake each night
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | Her daughter | Mother |  | the dark |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** | past | daughter |  |  |  | night | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Her daughter yelling "Mother!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t7:o2:1
# text = Her daughter yelling "Mother!"
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | Her daughter | Mother |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Thunder rolling over the hills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t7:o3:1
# text = Thunder rolling over the hills
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | gerund | Thunder *not said here* |  |  | the hills |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Her daughter yelling "Mother!" again and again from the far shore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2057-pg976-part16:t7:o4:1
# text = Her daughter yelling "Mother!" again and again from the far shore
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	yelling	yell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | gerund | Her daughter *not said here* | Mother |  | the far shore | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |

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