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title: ok so what's the Talking Image, is it like a robot or what — Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so what's the Talking Image, is it like a robot or what Test 8 · ★ of lesson 2084 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes the Golden Fleece with Medea's magic and sails away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ok so what's the Talking Image, is it like a robot or what

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Talking Image · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2084 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes the Golden Fleece with Medea's magic and sails away» 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/2084-pg976-part43/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t8:1
# text = ok so what's the Talking Image, is it like a robot or what
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Image	Image	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Talking Image |  |  |  |  | like a robot | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a robot, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t8:o1:1
# text = a robot, yeah
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it's a magic ship thing that talks and shouts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t8:o2:1
# text = it's a magic ship thing that talks and shouts
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a ship thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | present | a ship thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | a ship thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a magic bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t8:o3:1
# text = a magic bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a magic ship that sails by itself, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2084-pg976-part43:t8:o4:1
# text = a magic ship that sails by itself, bro
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sails	sail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | present | a magic ship and bro |  |  |  |  | by itself *= it* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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