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title: Bro, what was the dude singing by the fire, no cap? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Cou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what was the dude singing by the fire, no cap? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri…

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Bro, what was the dude singing by the fire, no cap?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro, dude · **What happens:** be, sing · **To what, where:** dude

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 104 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bride pours cold fish over him and he learns to shiver» 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/104-pg11027-part7/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t1:1
# text = Bro, what was the dude singing by the fire, no cap?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bro and no cap | the dude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the dude *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=Location |

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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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"If I could but shiver!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t1:o1:1
# text = "If I could but shiver!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Brr, I'm cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t1:o2:1
# text = Brr, I'm cold
1	Brr	Brr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I | Brr *not said here* |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ngl I just wanna shiver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t1:o3:1
# text = ngl I just wanna shiver
1	ngl	ngl	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wanna	wanna	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wanna** | present | I | shiver |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yo, shiver me timbers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t1:o4:1
# text = yo, shiver me timbers
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	shiver	shiver	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	timbers	timber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shiver** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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