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title: Bruv, what did the old lady say the palace was missing? — Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the old lady say the palace was missing? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 3 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

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Bruv, what did the old lady say the palace was missing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old lady, palace · **What happens:** say, miss · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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/1644-pg5615-part33/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t3:1
# text = Bruv, what did the old lady say the palace was missing?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the old lady |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **miss** | past · progressive | the palace |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 water of life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t3:o1:1
# text = the water of life
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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more gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t3:o2:1
# text = more gold
1	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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something still needed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t3:o3:1
# text = something still needed
1	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | participle |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a golden fountain too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t3:o4:1
# text = a golden fountain too
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

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