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title: Ok, what did the yard dog's bark sound like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Coll… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ok, what did the yard dog's bark sound like? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

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Ok, what did the yard dog's bark sound like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** bark sound

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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/976-pg27200-part187/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t13:1
# text = Ok, what did the yard dog's bark sound like?
1	Ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the yard dog's bark sound |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Eventuality |

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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}

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Rough and cracked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t13:o1:1
# text = Rough and cracked
1	Rough	rough	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Hoarse, not proper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t13:o2:1
# text = Hoarse, not proper
1	Hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Like a hoarse, croaking cough, not a proper bark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t13:o3:1
# text = Like a hoarse, croaking cough, not a proper bark
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Croaky, not clear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t13:o4:1
# text = Croaky, not clear
1	Croaky	croaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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