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title: Bro, what did the old man do with Ciccu's figs? — Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beati… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the old man do with Ciccu's figs? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1673 «Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and a royal job» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and…

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Bro, what did the old man do with Ciccu's figs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** old man

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1673 «Italian Tales, Ciccu, part 62: a beating, a fig trade and a royal job» 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/1673-pg5615-part62/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1673-pg5615-part62:t7:1
# text = Bro, what did the old man do with Ciccu's figs?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the old man |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Ciccu's figs | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sold them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1673-pg5615-part62:t7:o1:1
# text = Sold them
1	Sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Threw them out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1673-pg5615-part62:t7:o2:1
# text = Threw them out
1	Threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw out** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gave them away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1673-pg5615-part62:t7:o3:1
# text = Gave them away
1	Gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give away** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ate half of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1673-pg5615-part62:t7:o4:1
# text = Ate half of them
1	Ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past |  | half of them |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |

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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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