--- title: Bro, why'd the king go down in the brambles? — Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper… · tree and pragmatics description: Bro, why'd the king go down in the brambles? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1195 «Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras kills the Stalo's dog and takes his gold, then the sick king gets a magic slipper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1195-pg3027-part61/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1195-pg3027-part61/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras ki… Bro, why'd the king go down in the brambles? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** go down This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1195 «Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras kills the Stalo's dog and takes his gold, then the sick king gets a magic slipper» 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/1195-pg3027-part61/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t8:1 # text = Bro, why'd the king go down in the brambles? 1 Bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 'd 'd PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 brambles bramble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go down** | infinitive | the king | | | | | in the brambles; Bro *vocative*; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bramble=Attribute | 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} He chased a stag, slipped ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t8:o1:1 # text = He chased a stag, slipped 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | past | He | a stag | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme | | 2 | **slip** | past | He *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 2 {#o2} He tripped ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t8:o2:1 # text = He tripped 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tripped trip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trip** | past | He | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} He chased boars and fell ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t8:o3:1 # text = He chased boars and fell 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 boars boar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chase** | past | He | boars | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | past | He *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} He ran off ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1195-pg3027-part61:t8:o4:1 # text = He ran off 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run off** | past | He | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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