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title: bro, who did the man think was grubbing up turnips? — Household Tales, Frederick and Catheri… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, who did the man think was grubbing up turnips? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee fro…

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bro, who did the man think was grubbing up turnips?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** think, grub up · **To what, where:** turnips

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» 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/108-pg11027-part11/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:t9:1
# text = bro, who did the man think was grubbing up turnips?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	grubbing	grub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	turnips	turnip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | bro |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grub up** | past · progressive | bro | turnips |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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The Evil One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:t9:o1:1
# text = The Evil One
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The parson's own lame servant, hidden in the field

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:t9:o2:1
# text = The parson's own lame servant, hidden in the field
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parson	parson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | participle |  | the parson's own lame servant *not said here* |  | the field |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Catherine, who was pulling up the roots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:t9:o3:1
# text = Catherine, who was pulling up the roots
1	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull up** | past · progressive | Catherine | the roots |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The priest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:108-pg11027-part11:t9:o4:1
# text = The priest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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