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title: Bruh, what was the frog doing on his knees? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, what was the frog doing on his knees? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1332 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryderi's hands stick to a golden bowl» 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 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryde…

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Bruh, what was the frog doing on his knees?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** frog · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** frog, knees

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1332 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryderi's hands stick to a golden bowl» 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/1332-pg3454-part57/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t2:1
# text = Bruh, what was the frog doing on his knees?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the frog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the frog *not said here* |  |  | frog's knees |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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praying with paws crossed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t2:o1:1
# text = praying with paws crossed
1	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	crossed	cross	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with paws | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **cross** | participle |  | paws *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
swimming in a pond, dude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t2:o2:1
# text = swimming in a pond, dude
1	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  | a pond and dude |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
just chilling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t2:o3:1
# text = just chilling
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	chilling	chill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chill** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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singing a loud song, fam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1332-pg3454-part57:t2:o4:1
# text = singing a loud song, fam
1	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | a loud song and fam |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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