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title: lmao the bear was like hold this knife — Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: lmao the bear was like hold this knife Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1269 «Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bear secretly feeds the hungry badgers, and a magic avenger frightens the bears away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bea…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lmao the bear was like hold this knife

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lmao like · **What happens:** lmao, be, hold · **To what, where:** bear, knife

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1269 «Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bear secretly feeds the hungry badgers, and a magic avenger frightens the bears away» 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/1269-pg338-part6/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1269-pg338-part6:t6:1
# text = lmao the bear was like hold this knife
1	lmao	lmao	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lmao** | infinitive |  | the bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | present | lmao like | this knife |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the avenger said he gave back only a knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1269-pg338-part6:t6:o1:1
# text = the avenger said he gave back only a knife
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the avenger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give back** | past | avenger | a knife |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the avenger said he gave back only a knife and nothing else from the hut

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1269-pg338-part6:t6:o2:1
# text = the avenger said he gave back only a knife and nothing else from the hut
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	conj	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the avenger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give back** | past | avenger | a knife |  | the hut |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the avenger said he gave back nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1269-pg338-part6:t6:o3:1
# text = the avenger said he gave back nothing
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the avenger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give back** | past | avenger | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the bear said he was giving back the meat, the knife, and the entire badger's dwelling

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1269-pg338-part6:t6:o4:1
# text = the bear said he was giving back the meat, the knife, and the entire badger's dwelling
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give back** | past · progressive | bear | the meat and the knife |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme |

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