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title: Bro, what did Red dare Ring to take on? — Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: bar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did Red dare Ring to take on? Test 15 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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 was 
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# Test 15 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

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Bro, what did Red dare Ring to take on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, take on · **To what, where:** Red dare Ring

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This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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/1731-pg640-part55/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t15:1
# text = Bro, what did Red dare Ring to take on?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Red dare Ring |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take on** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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the wild oxen on the far hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t15:o1:1
# text = the wild oxen on the far hill
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the wild boars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t15:o2:1
# text = the wild boars
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boars	boar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the wild oxen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t15:o3:1
# text = the wild oxen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the herd of wild oxen by the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1731-pg640-part55:t15:o4:1
# text = the herd of wild oxen by the river
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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