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title: Wait, the thirsty mate drank forty barrels of wine? Proper mental! — Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, the thirsty mate drank forty barrels of wine? Proper mental! Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Wait, the thirsty mate drank forty barrels of wine? Proper mental!

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, thirsty mate · **What happens:** wait, drink · **To what, where:** forty barrels

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1723 «Fairy Tales from many lands, The Simpleton, the Simpleton beats the King's impossible tasks and wins the Princess» 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/1723-pg640-part47/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Wait, the thirsty mate drank forty barrels of wine?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t4:1
# text = Wait, the thirsty mate drank forty barrels of wine?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | past | the thirsty mate | forty barrels of wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Proper mental!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t4:2
# text = Proper mental!
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, forty jugs, every bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t4:o1:1
# text = Yeah, forty jugs, every bit
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	jugs	jug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, forty casks, every drop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t4:o2:1
# text = Yeah, forty casks, every drop
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, forty casks, every drop, and he asked for more before the feast ended

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah, forty casks, every drop, and he asked for more before the feast ended
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	obl	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | forty casks and every drop |  |  |  |  | for more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **end** | past | the feast |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, forty casks, every drop, then he fell asleep in the cellar for a whole day

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1723-pg640-part47:t4:o4:1
# text = Yeah, forty casks, every drop, then he fell asleep in the cellar for a whole day
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | forty casks and every drop |  |  | the cellar | then; day | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cellar=Location |

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