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title: Dude, why'd he take them down from the gallows? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, why'd he take them down from the gallows? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1434 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, part 21: the youth warms seven dead men and hangs them back up» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

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Dude, why'd he take them down from the gallows?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** take down · **To what, where:** them, gallows

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1434 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, part 21: the youth warms seven dead men and hangs them back up» 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/1434-pg503-part21/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1434-pg503-part21:t6:1
# text = Dude, why'd he take them down from the gallows?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gallows	gallows	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take down** | would | he | them *= they* |  | the gallows |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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Cuz he's soft

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1434-pg503-part21:t6:o1:1
# text = Cuz he's soft
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cuz | Cuz *not said here* |  |  |  | soft *property* | tree rules |

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

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Cause he had a soft heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1434-pg503-part21:t6:o2:1
# text = Cause he had a soft heart
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Cause | a soft heart |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He was bored

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1434-pg503-part21:t6:o3:1
# text = He was bored
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | He |  |  |  |  | bored *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cause he was feeling bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1434-pg503-part21:t6:o4:1
# text = Cause he was feeling bad
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · progressive | he |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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