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title: Wait, what did the brothers actually get for messing up? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the brothers actually get for messing up? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 3 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wait, what did the brothers actually get for messing up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, brothers · **What happens:** wait, do, get, mess up

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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/1581-pg540-part78/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t3:1
# text = Wait, what did the brothers actually get for messing up?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	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	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	messing	mess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | present | the brothers |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **mess up** | gerund | the brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Three red stripes and a rub of salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t3:o1:1
# text = Three red stripes and a rub of salt
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** |  |  | salt |  |  |  |  | nom rub «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three red marks and a slap of mud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t3:o2:1
# text = Three red marks and a slap of mud
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	slap	slap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slap** |  |  | mud |  |  |  |  | nom slap «event transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three red stripes cut on the back and then a hard rub of salt in them

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t3:o3:1
# text = Three red stripes cut on the back and then a hard rub of salt in them
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | participle |  | Three red stripes and a hard rub of salt in stripes *not said here* |  | the back |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **rub** |  |  | salt in stripes |  |  |  |  | nom rub «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three red stripes and a rub of salt, and they were sent home in shame

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1581-pg540-part78:t3:o4:1
# text = Three red stripes and a rub of salt, and they were sent home in shame
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rub	rub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive | Three red stripes and a rub of salt *not said here* | stripes *= stripe* |  | shame |  | home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in shame=Destination |
| 2 | **rub** |  |  | salt |  |  |  |  | nom rub «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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