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title: Right, why'd the lads bung Toueno in a sack? — Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Right, why'd the lads bung Toueno in a sack? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

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Right, why'd the lads bung Toueno in a sack?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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/1295-pg3454-part20/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t6:1
# text = Right, why'd the lads bung Toueno in a sack?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	bung	bung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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to drown him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t6:o1:1
# text = to drown him
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drown	drown	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to sell him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t6:o2:1
# text = to sell him
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sell	sell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | to-infinitive |  |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to kill him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t6:o3:1
# text = to kill him
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to drown him in the river so he'd never come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1295-pg3454-part20:t6:o4:1
# text = to drown him in the river so he'd never come back
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | him *= he* |  | the river |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **come back** | would | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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