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title: bro what was the old donkey's punishment? — Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro what was the old donkey's punishment? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1688 «Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the faithless trio with magic cabbage» 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 w
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bro what was the old donkey's punishment?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** punishment

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1688 «Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the faithless trio with magic cabbage» 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/1688-pg640-part12/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1688-pg640-part12:t8:1
# text = bro what was the old donkey's punishment?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bro | the old donkey's punishment |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two beatings and a meal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1688-pg640-part12:t8:o1:1
# text = two beatings and a meal
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	beatings	beating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three beatings and one meal every morning until the old donkey died

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1688-pg640-part12:t8:o2:1
# text = three beatings and one meal every morning until the old donkey died
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	beatings	beating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | three beatings until the old donkey and one meal |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three beatings and one meal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1688-pg640-part12:t8:o3:1
# text = three beatings and one meal
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	beatings	beating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it got beaten three times, then fed once, then sent back to the yard again

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1688-pg640-part12:t8:o4:1
# text = it got beaten three times, then fed once, then sent back to the yard again
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past · passive |  | it |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** | participle |  |  |  |  | then | once *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send back** | past |  |  |  |  | then; again | to the yard | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to yard=Destination |

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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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