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title: bruh why did the frog keep jumping in his cup? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird,… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh why did the frog keep jumping in his cup? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1690 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir gets the bird's branch, then finds a maiden and a palace where the fountain was» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 2 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir get…

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bruh why did the frog keep jumping in his cup?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** frog · **What happens:** keep, jump · **To what, where:** cup

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1690 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir gets the bird's branch, then finds a maiden and a palace where the fountain was» 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/1690-pg640-part14/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1690-pg640-part14:t2:1
# text = bruh why did the frog keep jumping in his cup?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | the frog |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump** | gerund | the frog *not said here* |  |  | frog's cup |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cup=Trajectory |

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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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she was feeling dizzy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1690-pg640-part14:t2:o1:1
# text = she was feeling dizzy
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · progressive | she |  |  |  |  | dizzy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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she wanted a snack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1690-pg640-part14:t2:o2:1
# text = she wanted a snack
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she | a snack |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot snack=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she was freezing cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1690-pg640-part14:t2:o3:1
# text = she was freezing cold
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	freezing	freeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | past · progressive | she |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

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she wanted to talk to him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1690-pg640-part14:t2:o4:1
# text = she wanted to talk to him
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |

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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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