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title: test: What's she bashing with that stick to get the man out? — Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46:… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: What's she bashing with that stick to get the man out? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1549 «Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, the cruel Prince, and Kari's glove and towel» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, t…

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test: What's she bashing with that stick to get the man out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** bash, get out · **To what, where:** test, man

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1549 «Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, the cruel Prince, and Kari's glove and towel» 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/1549-pg540-part46/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t9:1
# text = test: What's she bashing with that stick to get the man out?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bashing	bash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bash** | present · progressive | she | test |  |  |  | with that stick | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent what=Patient with stick=Instrument |
| 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | the man |  |  |  |  | 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}

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the rock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t9:o1:1
# text = the rock
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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 rock wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t9:o2:1
# text = the rock wall
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the stone floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t9:o3:1
# text = the stone floor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	floor	floor	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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the stick by the rock wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1549-pg540-part46:t9:o4:1
# text = the stick by the rock wall
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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