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title: What's the gig Burchard gave her, fr? — Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the gig Burchard gave her, fr? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

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What's the gig Burchard gave her, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gig · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** fr, Burchard

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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/1568-pg540-part65/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t8:1
# text = What's the gig Burchard gave her, fr?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gig	gig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | the gig | fr | Burchard |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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clean out the stables and spin nettles every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t8:o1:1
# text = clean out the stables and spin nettles every day
1	clean	clean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	spin	spin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stables |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stable=Patient |
| 2 | **spin** | present | you *not said here* | nettles |  |  | day |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nettle=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
spin nettles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t8:o2:1
# text = spin nettles
1	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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weave linen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t8:o3:1
# text = weave linen
1	weave	weave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | imperative | you *not said here* | linen |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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tend the cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t8:o4:1
# text = tend the cows
1	tend	tend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cows |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |

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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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