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title: Dude, why'd the youngest bro bring a foal inside, like what? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, why'd the youngest bro bring a foal inside, like what? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1129 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal saves the brothers from Wednesday and the youngest wins the Tsar's favour» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 2 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal save…

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Dude, why'd the youngest bro bring a foal inside, like what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** foal

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1129 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Forty-First Brother: the foal saves the brothers from Wednesday and the youngest wins the Tsar's favour» 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/1129-pg29672-part35/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1129-pg29672-part35:t2:1
# text = Dude, why'd the youngest bro bring a foal inside, like what?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | would | Dude |  | a foal |  |  | inside *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent foal=Destination what=Theme |

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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}

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To hide it from dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1129-pg29672-part35:t2:o1:1
# text = To hide it from dad
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  | from dad | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from dad=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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To keep it close to him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1129-pg29672-part35:t2:o2:1
# text = To keep it close to him
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To eat it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1129-pg29672-part35:t2:o3:1
# text = To eat it
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cause it was cold out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1129-pg29672-part35:t2:o4:1
# text = Cause it was cold out
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	cold	col	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **col out** | past · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | 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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