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title: why did he go to the tavern, bro? — Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: why did he go to the tavern, bro? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» 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 6 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the p…

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why did he go to the tavern, bro?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** tavern

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» 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/1098-pg29672-part4/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t6:1
# text = why did he go to the tavern, bro?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tavern	tavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | he |  |  | the tavern and bro |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tavern=Initial\_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 {#o1}

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to check whether the sack really worked at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t6:o1:1
# text = to check whether the sack really worked at all
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past | the sack |  |  |  |  | at all | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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to test the sack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t6:o2:1
# text = to test the sack
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	test	test	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | to-infinitive |  | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to see if the tavern had any ale left

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t6:o3:1
# text = to see if the tavern had any ale left
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tavern	tavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the tavern | any ale |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | any ale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to buy beer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1098-pg29672-part4:t6:o4:1
# text = to buy beer
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | beer |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme |

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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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