--- title: mid moment: what did Picus cry? — Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25:… · tree and pragmatics description: mid moment: what did Picus cry? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2066 «Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone to the palace and Quicksilver gives him a magic flower» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2066-pg976-part25/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2066-pg976-part25/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone t… mid moment: what did Picus cry? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Picus · **What happens:** cry · **To what, where:** mid moment This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2066 «Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone to the palace and Quicksilver gives him a magic flower» 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/2066-pg976-part25/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t12:1 # text = mid moment: what did Picus cry? 1 mid mid ADJ JJ _ 2 amod _ _ 2 moment moment 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 Picus Picus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · do-support | Picus | mid moment | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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} Cuckoo, cuckoo, weep ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t12:o1:1 # text = Cuckoo, cuckoo, weep 1 Cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 weep weep NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Peep ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t12:o2:1 # text = Peep 1 Peep peep NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Pe-weep ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t12:o3:1 # text = Pe-weep 1 Pe pe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 weep weep NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Peep, peep, pe--weep ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2066-pg976-part25:t12:o4:1 # text = Peep, peep, pe--weep 1 Peep peep NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 peep peep NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 pe pe NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 -- -- PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 weep weep NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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