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title: who yelled "Joy! joy!"? — A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: who yelled "Joy! joy!"? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 2059 «A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 14 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

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who yelled "Joy! joy!"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** yell · **To what, where:** Joy joy

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 2059 «A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home» 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/2059-pg976-part18/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t14:1
# text = who yelled "Joy! joy!"?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	yelled	yell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Joy	Joy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | past |  | Joy joy |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=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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one of the company

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t14:o1:1
# text = one of the company
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the old servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t14:o2:1
# text = the old servant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one of the travelling companions behind him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t14:o3:1
# text = one of the travelling companions behind him
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the oldest of the followers in the group

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2059-pg976-part18:t14:o4:1
# text = the oldest of the followers in the group
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

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