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title: Yo, who was secretly doing all of Barbaik's chores? — Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, who was secretly doing all of Barbaik's chores? Test 1 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mov
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# Test 1 · ★ · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

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Yo, who was secretly doing all of Barbaik's chores?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** all

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This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t1:1
# text = Yo, who was secretly doing all of Barbaik's chores?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	chores	chore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · progressive |  | all |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |

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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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the old farmer Riou

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t1:o1:1
# text = the old farmer Riou
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Riou	Riou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the brownie helping Jegu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t1:o2:1
# text = the brownie helping Jegu
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brownie	brownie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | gerund | the brownie *not said here* |  | Jegu |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jegu=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the brownie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t1:o3:1
# text = the brownie
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brownie	brownie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Jegu's father

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t1:o4:1
# text = Jegu's father
1	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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