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title: Bruv, how did Miranda get to the cave, was it a bus? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, how did Miranda get to the cave, was it a bus? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 2 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

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Bruv, how did Miranda get to the cave, was it a bus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Miranda, cave · **What happens:** get, be · **To what, where:** bus

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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/1465-pg503-part52/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t2:1
# text = Bruv, how did Miranda get to the cave, was it a bus?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | Miranda |  |  |  |  | to the cave *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | past | cave | a bus |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a cart with four ponies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t2:o1:1
# text = Yeah, a cart with four ponies
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ponies	pony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, a golden coach with silver wheels, pulled by eight white horses, innit

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t2:o2:1
# text = Nah, a golden coach with silver wheels, pulled by eight white horses, innit
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by eight white horses | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, a van pulled by two dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t2:o3:1
# text = Nah, a van pulled by two dogs
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  | a van *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, a pumpkin carriage pulled by six goats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1465-pg503-part52:t2:o4:1
# text = Nah, a pumpkin carriage pulled by six goats
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  | a pumpkin carriage *not said here* |  |  |  | by six goats | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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