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title: Why did the mum never get free, bruv? — Gutenberg 3282, Kisa the Cat, Kisa res… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the mum never get free, bruv? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1245 «Gutenberg 3282, Kisa the Cat, Kisa rescues Ingibjorg from the giant and claims her reward» 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 wron
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# Test 9 · ★ · Gutenberg 3282, Kisa the Cat, Kisa rescues Ingibjorg from…

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Why did the mum never get free, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** not get · **To what, where:** free bruv

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1245 «Gutenberg 3282, Kisa the Cat, Kisa rescues Ingibjorg from the giant and claims her reward» 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/1245-pg3282-part46/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1245-pg3282-part46:t9:1
# text = Why did the mum never get free, bruv?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | past · do-support |  | free bruv |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bruv=Stimulus |

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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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She was stuck in her cat form

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1245-pg3282-part46:t9:o1:1
# text = She was stuck in her cat form
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | She |  |  | her cat form |  | stuck *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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She never got to do something new and kindly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1245-pg3282-part46:t9:o2:1
# text = She never got to do something new and kindly
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | past | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nobody gave her a chance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1245-pg3282-part46:t9:o3:1
# text = Nobody gave her a chance
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Nobody | a chance | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chance=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She never got the chance to do something new and kindly before the fairy's curse trapped her forever

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1245-pg3282-part46:t9:o4:1
# text = She never got the chance to do something new and kindly before the fairy's curse trapped her forever
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | past | She | the chance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | She *not said here* | something |  |  | before the fairy's curse | forever *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 3 | **trap** | participle | the fairy's curse *not said here* | fairy |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **curse** |  | the fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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