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title: Yo, did his brothers really take his eye for ONE bit of bread? — Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, did his brothers really take his eye for ONE bit of bread? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1693 «Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled Ferko heals himself and wins the King's test» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 1 · ★ · Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled…

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Yo, did his brothers really take his eye for ONE bit of bread?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** eye

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1693 «Slavonic Fairy Tales, Ferko, part 17: blinded and crippled Ferko heals himself and wins the King's test» 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/1693-pg640-part17/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1693-pg640-part17:t1:1
# text = Yo, did his brothers really take his eye for ONE bit of bread?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	ONE	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | his brothers | his eye |  |  |  | for ONE bit of bread | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent eye=Theme for bit=Beneficiary |

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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 {#o1}

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nah, his left eye and left leg, dead rough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1693-pg640-part17:t1:o1:1
# text = nah, his left eye and left leg, dead rough
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, just his bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1693-pg640-part17:t1:o2:1
# text = nah, just his bread
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, right eye and right leg, proper harsh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1693-pg640-part17:t1:o3:1
# text = yeah, right eye and right leg, proper harsh
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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yeah, his right eye and right leg and all his wages from the market, proper harsh

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1693-pg640-part17:t1:o4:1
# text = yeah, his right eye and right leg and all his wages from the market, proper harsh
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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