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title: Arre, what does the salute sound like? — Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Arre, what does the salute sound like? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 628 «Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 13 · ★ · Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees t…

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Arre, what does the salute sound like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Arre · **What happens:** sound

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 628 «Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants: Little Toomai sees the elephants dance at night and is named Toomai of the Elephants» 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/628-pg236-part29/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t13:1
# text = Arre, what does the salute sound like?
1	Arre	Arre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	salute	salute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present · do-support | Arre |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a crashing trumpet-peal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t13:o1:1
# text = a crashing trumpet-peal
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
3	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	peal	peal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a great crashing trumpet-peal from all the herd at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t13:o2:1
# text = a great crashing trumpet-peal from all the herd at once
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
4	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	peal	peal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a deep rolling growl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t13:o3:1
# text = a deep rolling growl
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	growl	growl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a faint bugle call

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:628-pg236-part29:t13:o4:1
# text = a faint bugle call
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bugle	bugle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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