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title: Bruh, why did the gnome keep counting those turnips over and over? — Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, why did the gnome keep counting those turnips over and over? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1252 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the princess tricks the gnome and escapes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the…

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Bruh, why did the gnome keep counting those turnips over and over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, keep, count · **To what, where:** gnome, turnips

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1252 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the princess tricks the gnome and escapes» 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/1252-pg3282-part53/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:t2:1
# text = Bruh, why did the gnome keep counting those turnips over and over?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	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=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	turnips	turnip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the gnome |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gnome=Eventuality |
| 2 | **keep** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | gerund |  | that turnips |  |  |  | over *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turnip=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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cause he got different numbers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:t2:o1:1
# text = cause he got different numbers
1	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | cause | different numbers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause he got different numbers each time he counted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:t2:o2:1
# text = cause he got different numbers each time he counted
1	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | cause | different numbers |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 2 | **count** | past | cause | each time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause he kept losing track of the count every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:t2:o3:1
# text = cause he kept losing track of the count every time
1	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | cause | losing track of the count |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause he forgot the count

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1252-pg3282-part53:t2:o4:1
# text = cause he forgot the count
1	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | cause | the count |  |  |  |  | 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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