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title: bro, which son volunteered first to watch the fruit? — Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, which son volunteered first to watch the fruit? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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 
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# Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

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bro, which son volunteered first to watch the fruit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** volunteer, watch · **To what, where:** fruit

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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/1713-pg640-part37/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t14:1
# text = bro, which son volunteered first to watch the fruit?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	volunteered	volunteer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **volunteer** | past | bro and which son |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | bro and which son *not said here* | the fruit |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Szabo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t14:o1:1
# text = Szabo
1	Szabo	Szabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t14:o2:1
# text = Ed
1	Ed	Ed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Miklos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t14:o3:1
# text = Miklos
1	Miklos	Miklos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ivan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t14:o4:1
# text = Ivan
1	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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