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title: Bruv, was the cow-house clean or dirty when nobody was watching her? — Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the g… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, was the cow-house clean or dirty when nobody was watching her? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1152 «Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's casket burns the cottage down» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's…

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Bruv, was the cow-house clean or dirty when nobody was watching her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** be, watch · **To what, where:** cow house, Bruv

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1152 «Yule-Tide Stories, Mother Holle, the greedy stepdaughter's casket burns the cottage down» 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/1152-pg3027-part18/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t3:1
# text = Bruv, was the cow-house clean or dirty when nobody was watching her?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the cow house |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | past · progressive | nobody | Bruv |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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left untidy with stalls unmucked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t3:o1:1
# text = left untidy with stalls unmucked
1	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	untidy	untidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	stalls	stall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	unmucked	unmuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with stalls; untidy *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stall=Theme |
| 2 | **unmuck** | participle |  | stalls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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dirty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t3:o2:1
# text = dirty
1	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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full of dung and muck everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t3:o3:1
# text = full of dung and muck everywhere
1	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	muck	muck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1152-pg3027-part18:t3:o4:1
# text = fine
1	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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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