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title: Honestly, what did the brownie tell Jegu to do in the meantime? — Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Honestly, what did the brownie tell Jegu to do in the meantime? Test 12 · ★ 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 eac
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# Test 12 · ★ · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

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Honestly, what did the brownie tell Jegu to do in the meantime?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brownie · **What happens:** tell, do · **To what, where:** Jegu, meantime · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t12:1
# text = Honestly, what did the brownie tell Jegu to do in the meantime?
1	Honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brownie	brownie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the brownie |  | Jegu |  |  | honestly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the brownie *not said here* |  |  | the meantime |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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go and rest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t12:o1:1
# text = go and rest
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rest** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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eat and sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t12:o2:1
# text = eat and sleep
1	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sleep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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go home, eat well and sleep until the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t12:o3:1
# text = go home, eat well and sleep until the morning
1	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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wait at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t12:o4:1
# text = wait at home
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |

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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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