--- title: Bruv, what did the lad say was impossible? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegr… · tree and pragmatics description: Bruv, what did the lad say was impossible? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1560-pg540-part57/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1560-pg540-part57/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout… Bruv, what did the lad say was impossible? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lad · **What happens:** do, say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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/1560-pg540-part57/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t11:1 # text = Bruv, what did the lad say was impossible? 1 Bruv Bruv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | Bruv *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the lad *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the lad | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | 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} Rescue ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t11:o1:1 # text = Rescue 1 Rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Saving the Princess now ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t11:o2:1 # text = Saving the Princess now 1 Saving save VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | gerund | | the Princess | | | now | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Setting the Princess free ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t11:o3:1 # text = Setting the Princess free 1 Setting set VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | gerund | | the Princess | | | | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient princess=Result | ### Option 4 {#o4} Freeing her ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:t11:o4:1 # text = Freeing her 1 Freeing free VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **free** | gerund | | her *= she* | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source | **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. 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