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title: Bro, why'd he bury fish under a stone? — Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, why'd he bury fish under a stone? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1217 «Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Yara and the hare calls up a spell» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was ri
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# Test 8 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Ya…

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Bro, why'd he bury fish under a stone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** bury · **To what, where:** fish, stone

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1217 «Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Yara and the hare calls up a spell» 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/1217-pg3282-part18/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1217-pg3282-part18:t8:1
# text = Bro, why'd he bury fish under a stone?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | would | he | fish |  | a stone |  | Bro *vocative* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme under stone=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So he could find them later for dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1217-pg3282-part18:t8:o1:1
# text = So he could find them later for dinner
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could | he | them *= they* |  |  |  | for dinner; late *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So he could find them later for dinner, since grandma could not cook without fire

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1217-pg3282-part18:t8:o2:1
# text = So he could find them later for dinner, since grandma could not cook without fire
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could | he | them *= they* |  |  |  | for dinner; late *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **cook** | could | grandma |  |  |  |  | without fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So he could find them later for dinner and share them with the wizard who visited

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1217-pg3282-part18:t8:o3:1
# text = So he could find them later for dinner and share them with the wizard who visited
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could | he | them *= they* |  |  |  | for dinner; late *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **share** | present | he *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | with the wizard | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | past | the wizard |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So the fox would not find them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1217-pg3282-part18:t8:o4:1
# text = So the fox would not find them
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | would | the fox | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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