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title: ok last one, what did the elder bro say sorry for? — Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok last one, what did the elder bro say sorry for? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…

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ok last one, what did the elder bro say sorry for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elder bro · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** ok last one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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/1650-pg5615-part39/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t12:1
# text = ok last one, what did the elder bro say sorry for?
1	ok	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past · do-support | the elder bro | ok last one |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the wicked blow he gave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t12:o1:1
# text = the wicked blow he gave
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | he | the wicked blow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the cruel stab he made

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t12:o2:1
# text = the cruel stab he made
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stab	stab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | he | the cruel stab *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stab=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
that nasty sword swing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t12:o3:1
# text = that nasty sword swing
1	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the wicked blow he gave his little brother with the sword in the forest that day

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t12:o4:1
# text = the wicked blow he gave his little brother with the sword in the forest that day
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the wicked blow |  | blow's little brother | the forest | day | with the sword | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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