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title: Bro, how'd the poor couple feel about yet another baby? — Household Tales, The Two Brothers, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, how'd the poor couple feel about yet another baby? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1572 «Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy sister gets pitch, and two twins set out and part at a crossway» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

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Bro, how'd the poor couple feel about yet another baby?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** poor couple · **What happens:** feel

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1572 «Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy sister gets pitch, and two twins set out and part at a crossway» 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/1572-pg540-part69/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1572-pg540-part69:t7:1
# text = Bro, how'd the poor couple feel about yet another baby?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | would | the poor couple |  |  |  |  | about another baby | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about baby=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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The dad was really annoyed and grumbled about feeding yet another hungry mouth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1572-pg540-part69:t7:o1:1
# text = The dad was really annoyed and grumbled about feeding yet another hungry mouth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dad |  |  |  |  | annoyed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | the dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feed** | gerund | the dad *not said here* | another hungry mouth |  |  | yet |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The dad was not overpleased at all, he grumbled and complained about the baby

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1572-pg540-part69:t7:o2:1
# text = The dad was not overpleased at all, he grumbled and complained about the baby
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	overpleased	overpleas	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **overpleas** | past · passive |  | the dad |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the baby | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about baby=Topic |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The dad was not overpleased, he grumbled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1572-pg540-part69:t7:o3:1
# text = The dad was not overpleased, he grumbled
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	overpleased	overpleas	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **overpleas** | past · passive |  | the dad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The dad was thrilled and cheered loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1572-pg540-part69:t7:o4:1
# text = The dad was thrilled and cheered loudly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dad |  |  |  |  | thrilled *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cheer** | participle | the dad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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