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title: Proper stupid, the wives bet on who was the dimmest husband, yeah? — Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper stupid, the wives bet on who was the dimmest husband, yeah? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1664 «Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen eats magic onions and bears a serpent» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen…

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Proper stupid, the wives bet on who was the dimmest husband, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stupid wives · **What happens:** bet, be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1664 «Swedish Folk Tales, The Lindorm, part 1: a childless queen eats magic onions and bears a serpent» 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/1664-pg5615-part53/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t10:1
# text = Proper stupid, the wives bet on who was the dimmest husband, yeah?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bet	bet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dimmest	dim	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bet** | present | the stupid wives |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | on the dimmest husband | 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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Yeah, the winner got off paying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t10:o1:1
# text = Yeah, the winner got off paying
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get off** | past | the winner |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | the winner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, the loser handed over her coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t10:o2:1
# text = Yeah, the loser handed over her coins
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	loser	loser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | past | the loser |  |  | loser's coins |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **coin** |  | loser |  |  |  |  |  | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the loser had to pay up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t10:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the loser had to pay up
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	loser	loser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the loser |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay up** | to-infinitive | the loser *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, they bet on the weather instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1664-pg5615-part53:t10:o4:1
# text = Nah, they bet on the weather instead
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bet	bet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bet** | present | they |  |  |  |  | on the weather; instead *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on weather=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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