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title: What was the principal reason the brownie offered for assisting Jegu? — Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the br… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the principal reason the brownie offered for assisting Jegu? Exam question 2 of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Exam question 2 · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

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What was the principal reason the brownie offered for assisting Jegu?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brownie · **What happens:** be, offer, assist · **To what, where:** principal reason, Jegu

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1336-pg3454-part61/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e2:1
# text = What was the principal reason the brownie offered for assisting Jegu?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brownie	brownie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	assisting	assist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | past | the brownie | the principal reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 3 | **assist** | gerund | the brownie *not said here* |  | Jegu |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jegu=Beneficiary |

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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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a fair share of the harvest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e2:o1:1
# text = a fair share of the harvest
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** |  |  | the harvest |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a promise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e2:o2:1
# text = a promise
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the robin's gift

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e2:o3:1
# text = the robin's gift
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gift** |  | the robin |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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gratitude for the robin's release

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:e2:o4:1
# text = gratitude for the robin's release
1	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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