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title: What did the dude lose at ninepins, real talk? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Cou… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the dude lose at ninepins, real talk? Test 9 · ★ 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 each op
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Could Not Shiver: a bri…

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What did the dude lose at ninepins, real talk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dude · **What happens:** do, lose · **To what, where:** ninepins

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t9:1
# text = What did the dude lose at ninepins, real talk?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ninepins	ninepin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | present | the dude |  |  | ninepins and real talk |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at ninepin=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a handful of bills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t9:o1:1
# text = a handful of bills
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
every dollar he had earned from the whole week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t9:o2:1
# text = every dollar he had earned from the whole week
1	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	earned	earn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **earn** | past · perfect | he | every dollar *not said here* |  |  | week |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a couple of dollars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t9:o3:1
# text = a couple of dollars
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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all his cash and his dad's gold ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:104-pg11027-part7:t9:o4:1
# text = all his cash and his dad's gold ring
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cash** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom cash «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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