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title: was the beach mad loud, like proper noisy? — The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the beach mad loud, like proper noisy? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 616 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch returns battered, Kotick is born white, and he grows up to fish at sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 5 · ★ · The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch return…

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was the beach mad loud, like proper noisy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 616 «The Jungle Book, The White Seal, part 17: Sea Catch returns battered, Kotick is born white, and he grows up to fish at sea» 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/616-pg236-part17/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t5:1
# text = was the beach mad loud, like proper noisy?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | the beach *obl:unmarked*; loud, mad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, super loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t5:o1:1
# text = Yeah, super loud
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	super	super	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, mad noisy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t5:o2:1
# text = Yeah, mad noisy
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was crazy with seals fighting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t5:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it was crazy with seals fighting
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | with seals; crazy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund | seals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a million seals were going off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:616-pg236-part17:t5:o4:1
# text = Yeah, a million seals were going off
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past · progressive | a million seals |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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