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title: why did Father Grumbler go to the tavern, mate? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young f… · tree and pragmatics
description: why did Father Grumbler go to the tavern, mate? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

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why did Father Grumbler go to the tavern, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Father · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** tavern

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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/1213-pg3282-part14/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t10:1
# text = why did Father Grumbler go to the tavern, mate?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Grumbler	Grumbler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tavern	tavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | Father |  |  | the tavern and mate |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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to find his lost wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t10:o1:1
# text = to find his lost wife
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | his lost wife |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to chase away Care

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t10:o2:1
# text = to chase away Care
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	chase	chase	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	Care	Care	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase away** | to-infinitive |  | Care |  |  |  | away *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to watch the men play cards all night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t10:o3:1
# text = to watch the men play cards all night
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | present | the men | cards |  |  | night |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to forget his debts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t10:o4:1
# text = to forget his debts
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | to-infinitive |  | his debts |  |  |  |  | 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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