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title: what was the turnkey yapping about? — Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 20… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the turnkey yapping about? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 991 «Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse bursts in and tells of her jail escape» 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 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse…

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what was the turnkey yapping about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** turnkey · **What happens:** be, yap

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 991 «Mouse Tales, The Mouse's Tale, part 202: the fourth mouse bursts in and tells of her jail escape» 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/991-pg27200-part202/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t7:1
# text = what was the turnkey yapping about?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	turnkey	turnkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	yapping	yap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the turnkey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yap** | gerund | the turnkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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his prisoners, one who said dumb thoughtless stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t7:o1:1
# text = his prisoners, one who said dumb thoughtless stuff
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | his prisoners | one |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
his cows and the price of the bread at market

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t7:o2:1
# text = his cows and the price of the bread at market
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
his prisoners and the man who said dumb thoughtless stuff all the time at night

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t7:o3:1
# text = his prisoners and the man who said dumb thoughtless stuff all the time at night
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man | dumb thoughtless stuff |  |  | night; time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
his prisoners, one who said dumb thoughtless stuff about the king and the soup

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:991-pg27200-part202:t7:o4:1
# text = his prisoners, one who said dumb thoughtless stuff about the king and the soup
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	thoughtless	thoughtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | his prisoners | one |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stuff=Topic |

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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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