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title: Ngl, what did the young eels tell him? — Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leave… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the young eels tell him? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 966 «Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and is jailed for Martin's murder» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Test 7 · ★ · Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and…

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Ngl, what did the young eels tell him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** young eels · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** Ngl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 966 «Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and is jailed for Martin's murder» 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/966-pg27200-part177/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:966-pg27200-part177:t7:1
# text = Ngl, what did the young eels tell him?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the young eels |  | Ngl |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=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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go a little way beyond the bay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:966-pg27200-part177:t7:o1:1
# text = go a little way beyond the bay
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | a little way |  | the bay |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond bay=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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go to the far shore and back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:966-pg27200-part177:t7:o2:1
# text = go to the far shore and back
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the far shore and back |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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stay in the bay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:966-pg27200-part177:t7:o3:1
# text = stay in the bay
1	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the bay |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bay=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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swim out past the rocks, fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:966-pg27200-part177:t7:o4:1
# text = swim out past the rocks, fast
1	swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	past	past	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the rocks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past rock=Trajectory |

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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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