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title: bruv, why did the buffalo get so peckish, innit? — Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain,… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruv, why did the buffalo get so peckish, innit? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1169 «Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl brings the dead buffalo back to life, and her husband spies on her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 2 · ★ · Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl br…

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bruv, why did the buffalo get so peckish, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bruv · **What happens:** do, get, innit · **To what, where:** buffalo

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1169 «Africa Tales, The Rover of the Plain, part 35: the girl brings the dead buffalo back to life, and her husband spies on her» 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/1169-pg3027-part35/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t2:1
# text = bruv, why did the buffalo get so peckish, innit?
1	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	peckish	peckish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the buffalo |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | present | bruv |  |  |  |  | peckish *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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cos he ate all the beans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t2:o1:1
# text = cos he ate all the beans
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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

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

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cos she never gave him nothing to eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t2:o2:1
# text = cos she never gave him nothing to eat
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | past | cos | nothing | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | cos *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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cos he was lazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t2:o3:1
# text = cos he was lazy
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he | cos *not said here* |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cos she forgot to feed him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1169-pg3027-part35:t2:o4:1
# text = cos she forgot to feed him
1	cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | cos |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **feed** | to-infinitive | cos *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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