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title: Wait, bro, why did the rabbit make that proper dodgy clay boat? — Myths and Legends of China, The Shinan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, bro, why did the rabbit make that proper dodgy clay boat? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1349 «Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage, part 9: Kotei beats the fog and crosses the river in boats made after a spider's leaf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, w
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# Test 2 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

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Wait, bro, why did the rabbit make that proper dodgy clay boat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, rabbit, that · **What happens:** wait, make, boat

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1349 «Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage, part 9: Kotei beats the fog and crosses the river in boats made after a spider's leaf» 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/1349-pg4018-part9/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t2:1
# text = Wait, bro, why did the rabbit make that proper dodgy clay boat?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · do-support | the rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **boat** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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to drown the badger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t2:o1:1
# text = to drown the badger
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drown	drown	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | to-infinitive |  | the badger |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to sink him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t2:o2:1
# text = to sink him
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sink	sink	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 | **sink** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to trap him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t2:o3:1
# text = to trap him
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trap	trap	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 | **trap** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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to scare the old fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1349-pg4018-part9:t2:o4:1
# text = to scare the old fox
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	scare	scare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare** | to-infinitive |  | the old fox |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fox=Experiencer |

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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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