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title: Bruv, how come the donkey got proper fat? — Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, how come the donkey got proper fat? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1284 «Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey tells the shark how a greedy donkey was tricked by a hare and a lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey…

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Bruv, how come the donkey got proper fat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bruv · **What happens:** come, get · **To what, where:** donkey, proper fat

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1284 «Indian tales, The Monkey and the Shark, part 9: the monkey tells the shark how a greedy donkey was tricked by a hare and a lion» 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/1284-pg3454-part9/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t2:1
# text = Bruv, how come the donkey got proper fat?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive |  | the donkey |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location donkey=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | Bruv | proper fat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fat=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 stuffed herself in the woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t2:o1:1
# text = She stuffed herself in the woods
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stuff** | past | She | herself *= she* |  | the woods |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in wood=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She nommed loads of grub outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t2:o2:1
# text = She nommed loads of grub outside
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	nommed	nomm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nomm** | past | She | loads of grub |  |  |  | outside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She ate loads of fruit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t2:o3:1
# text = She ate loads of fruit
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | She | loads of fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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She scoffed loads in the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1284-pg3454-part9:t2:o4:1
# text = She scoffed loads in the forest
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scoffed	scoff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scoff** | past | She | loads |  | the forest |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |

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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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