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title: Dude, what did the wife send the dog to do? — Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what did the wife send the dog to do? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 10 · ★ · Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 2…

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Dude, what did the wife send the dog to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife, Dude · **What happens:** send, do · **To what, where:** Dude

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1639 «Italian Popular Tales, Master Joseph the Shoemaker, part 28: the robbers buy the donkey and the guitar and are fooled again» 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/1639-pg5615-part28/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t10:1
# text = Dude, what did the wife send the dog to do?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · do-support | the wife | Dude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Dude *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Go to the vineyard and call Joseph back to the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t10:o1:1
# text = Go to the vineyard and call Joseph back to the house
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the vineyard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to vineyard=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **call back** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Joseph | the house |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joseph=Topic to house=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Bring back the stolen money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t10:o2:1
# text = Bring back the stolen money
1	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stolen money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Call Joseph from the vineyard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t10:o3:1
# text = Call Joseph from the vineyard
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | Joseph |  | the vineyard |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent joseph=Theme from vineyard=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Run to the vineyard and bark loudly to fetch Joseph home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1639-pg5615-part28:t10:o4:1
# text = Run to the vineyard and bark loudly to fetch Joseph home
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the vineyard and bark *result*; loudly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to vineyard=Result |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Joseph home |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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