--- title: Bruv, did the fox actually beg the prince to chop his head off? — Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bi… · tree and pragmatics description: Bruv, did the fox actually beg the prince to chop his head off? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1636-pg5615-part25/t1/) [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/) / [Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1636-pg5615-part25/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the pri… Bruv, did the fox actually beg the prince to chop his head off? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bruv · **What happens:** do, beg, chop off · **To what, where:** fox, prince, head This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1636 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Bird, part 25: the prince beheads the fox, then returns in disguise and wakes the bird» 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/1636-pg5615-part25/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t1:1 # text = Bruv, did the fox actually beg the prince to chop his head off? 1 Bruv Bruv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 actually actually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 chop chop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Bruv | the fox | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | Bruv *not said here* | | the prince | | | actually *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | | 3 | **chop off** | to-infinitive | Bruv *not said here* | Bruv's head | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Yeah, mate, he kept on begging ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t1:o1:1 # text = Yeah, mate, he kept on begging 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 begging begging NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | he | | | begging | | mate *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on begging=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, he only asked once, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t1:o2:1 # text = Nah, he only asked once, bruv 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | he | bruv | | | | once *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, he begged for a bit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t1:o3:1 # text = Yeah, he begged for a bit 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | he | | | | | for a bit | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for bit=Topic | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, he didn't ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1636-pg5615-part25:t1:o4:1 # text = Nah, he didn't 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** | past | he | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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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